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  2. Basilic (cannon) - Wikipedia

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    The Basilic, [1] 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. It is one of the largest cannons ever built. [2] The cannon was first offered to Constantine XI, who turned it down due to the cost of its construction. [3]

  3. Mehmed II's campaigns - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of campaigns personally led by Mehmed II (30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i s̠ānī; Turkish: II.Mehmet; also known as el-Fātiḥ, الفاتح, "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish; in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet; also called Mahomet II in early modern Europe) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, first for a short time from ...

  4. Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    The account of the cannon's collapse is disputed, [6] [page needed] given that it was only reported in the letter of Archbishop Leonardo di Chio [60] and in the later, and often unreliable, Russian chronicle of Nestor Iskander. [70] Modern painting of Mehmed and the Ottoman Army approaching Constantinople with a giant bombard, by Fausto Zonaro.

  5. Mehmed II - Wikipedia

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    Mehmet, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmet]; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Ottoman Turkish: ابو الفتح, romanized: Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit. 'the Father of Conquest'; Turkish: Fâtih Sultan Mehmed ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February ...

  6. Siege of Jajce (1464) - Wikipedia

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    Mehmed personally commanded a force including 30,000 men and a large siege train, [2] including six stone throwing cannons. [ 7 ] The Ottoman army had probably set out from Edirne in late May according to C. Imber , 'since Malipiero dates the siege of Jajce to between 10 July and 24 August, and Enveri [...] also says that it began in July'.

  7. Siege of Neamț Citadel - Wikipedia

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    He positioned his cannons on a nearby hill, and began bombarding the stronghold, causing significant damage. The Moldavian garrison was at the point of surrender, when a German prisoner held in the dungeons had the idea of using the cannons against the Ottoman position on the hill. His idea was put into practice, and soon the camp of the Turks ...

  8. Ottoman weapons - Wikipedia

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    Mehmed II erected many cannon-foundries in Istanbul, the most famous of which is the Tophane foundry which produced bronze cannons for siege warfare. It made large bombards which had a diameter of 60–100 cm (24–39 in) and in 1562 alone it cast a total of 1012 guns weighing all together 481 t (473 long tons; 530 short tons).

  9. Siege of Negroponte (1470) - Wikipedia

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    A painting of Mehmed the Conqueror, Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World. On the other hand, Sultan Mehmed himself came across Negroponte by land with a force of 70 thousand people. Sultan gathered his ships on the part of the island closest to the land and built a bridge connecting the land and the island for 3 days.