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National Geographic : 1969 Dec
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oxen and thousands of soldiers dragged some seventy vessels, each fitted on a wheeled cradle. So intoxicated were Mehmet's men with the boldness of their deed that, as Kritovoulos describes it, "... they manned the ships on the land as if they were on the sea. Some of them hoisted the sails with a shout.... Others seated themselves on the benches, holding the oars in their hands and moving them as if rowing. And the commanders... ordered them to row." Defenses thus pene trated, Constantinople-Christianity's eastern capital for eleven centuries-fell to the Turks. 841
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