WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Constantinople was constructed to be an impenetrable fortress able to withstand any siege. However, the Ottoman Empire made effective use of gunpowder and artillery to destroy the indestructible. Even the might of Constantinople was overcome by the Ottoman “super cannon, ‘’ the Dardanelles gun .

Detailed explanation-2: -At the siege of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans employed a number of cannons, anywhere from 12 to 62. They were built at foundries that employed Turkish cannon founders and technicians, most notably Saruca, in addition to at least one foreign cannon founder, Orban.

Detailed explanation-3: -The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. Mehmed surrounded Constantinople from land and sea while employing cannon to maintain a constant barrage of the city’s formidable walls.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ottoman Empire is known today as a major Gunpowder Empire, famous for its prevalent use of this staple of modern warfare as early as the sixteenth century. used massive cannons to batter down the walls of Constantinople in 1453, when gunpowder weapons were just beginning to gain their potency.

Detailed explanation-5: -The bombards came to the Ottoman Empire from Europe in the early fourteenth century and remained in service until the early nineteenth century. Originally built from wrought-iron bars, these cannons weighed upwards of 6000-16000 kilograms (kg) and were capable of firing stones of up to 700 kg.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Basilic, or The Ottoman Cannon was a very large-calibre cannon designed by Orban, a cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at a time when cannons were still new.