Brownworth presents Mehmed II as a mass of contradictions: a poet and scholar fluent in several languages who was also an unstable tyrant capable of incredible cruelty. Coldly strategic, he built the Throat Cutter fortress, commissioned the great cannon, transported 70 ships overland to bypass the harbor chain, and relentlessly pursued the fall of Constantinople, which he saw as his birthright as heir of the Romans.
Also known as: Mehmet II · Muhammad II · the Conqueror
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Episode 11 (1 mention)
“volume of them, they took six months to burn, heating the conqueror's saunas.”
Episode 16 (24 mentions)
Brownworth presents Mehmed II as a mass of contradictions: a poet and scholar fluent in several languages who was also an unstable tyrant capable of incredible cruelty. Coldly strategic, he built the Throat Cutter fortress, commissioned the great cannon, transported 70 ships overland to bypass the harbor chain, and relentlessly pursued the fall of Constantinople, which he saw as his birthright as heir of the Romans.
“The new Sultan Mehmed II was only 19 years old, and when ambassadors were sent to congratulate”
“the waters, and when Mehmet saw the site, he shrewdly realized its importance.”
“Against this meager force, Mehmet had assembled 150,000 troops, 10,000 janissaries, and at”
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