May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine ...

Humphreys (Vlad: The Last Confession) offers a strong work of historical fiction set in the 19450s, about the battle of Mehmet, sultan of the Ottoman Turks, to conquer Constantinople, a target that ...

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Turks. In 1736, American patriot Patrick Henry was born on the Studley plantation in Hanover County, Va. In 1790, ...