The Crusaders and the Ottomans in the Bosphorus

A small number of genoese galleys, maybe only three or four, had been sent with the christian blessing of the pope. The ottomans were in full knowledge of their approach and Memed's instruction to his nable commander, baltodlu was simple, capture the ships or die trying. Mehmed would concentrate some efforts into filling the empty moat protecting the theodosian walls, so that he could transport greater numbers of infantry and artillery into the breaches of the wall. Byzantines continued to bravely resist the relentlessly attacking ottoman forces.