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'The Final Assault on Constantinople', (29 May 1453), 1890. The Fall of Constantinople - capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital under Constantine XI Palaiologos by an invading Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II, on 29 May 1453. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)