The Night an Ottoman Army Turned Around and Went Home
In the summer of 1462, Sultan Mehmed II — the man who had shattered Constantinople nine
years earlier — rode toward the Wallachian capital of Târgoviște with an army of roughly
90,000 men. He had crushed the Byzantine Empire. He would not be stopped by one renegade
Christian prince. Then he saw the...
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