The Fall of Constantinople, 1453: The Last Night of the Eastern Roman Empire | Calm Bedtime History

It is late May in the year 1453. On the heights above Constantinople, the campfires of an army eighty thousand strong flicker against the darkened land walls. Inside the city, seven thousand defenders stand where once two hundred thousand lived in splendour, and the dome of Hagia Sophia rises pale above the sea mist, still crowned with a cross of gold.