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An answer to Emperor Constantine's prayers,
This sword has seen too many battles to count.
Let me clean the wound, before it festers.
[exclaims]
Mmm-argh!
Wake up, you old Greek.
I would choose my words wisely, Lord Notaras.
[narrator] Word of Mehmed's setback outside the walls of Constantinople
This kind of concentrated the minds of everybody else,
The weaker, poorly defended seaward walls along the Golden Horn.
I fought with Suleyman Pasha in Bulgaria, he is a good man.
And it's always,
But people like Candarli, they're bureaucrats:
Look... [breathing heavily]
If you knew who I was, soldier,
Thank you, Sultana.
[narrator] Mehmed's mining operation
[Loukas] Okay.
[horse neighs]
[Baltaoglu] Go on! Go on!
[narrator] Over a period of days and weeks,
Lady Therma?
He has a pizzazz, and he has luck,
therefore causing the walls to fall down.
[shouting]
The man tasked with stopping them is Mehmed's top admiral,
Yah!
They could reach the city within a month.
over land.
Oh, I've died and gone to hell.
of Emperor Constantine's defenses,
He put barrels with water,
What is it?
The emperor would be a fool not to embrace it in the circumstances.
With many of his men dead or wounded,
You grew up playing on the walls,
[narrator] His stepmother, Mara, now lives in the palace of her father,
She was related to everybody,
[screaming]
[indistinct chatter]
I'm a Roman nobleman with news that could help your cause.
There was always this idea that, um, the Ottomans are very much land based,
they will go under them.
End this siege before a unified Christian army shows up at these gates.
and those that came before him.
Take cover!
a massive, half mile long cast-iron chain.