Dear Brother, it is I, your sister, Eudokia Laskarina, writing to you from Ravenna. I have awful news concerning our former homeland. I am terribly heartbroken to say that it is no longer. Many of our former friends and family perished in the awful, frightening battle, including my fiancé, who was felled by the sword as he was doing his best to defend the city. I am very thankful you escaped the deadly siege the city was forced to endure.
I am afraid it has been the Turkish people who were called the Mongols who now lay claim to the once great Byzantium of the Roman Empire. Before laying siege upon the great city of Byzantium the Turks had been occupying the areas of Pontus and Cappadocia . They initially started as a many gang that mainly …show more content…
So, we had their leader, the Pope, who calls himself Nicholas V, concentrate his politics to bringing together all the Christian princes to help defend our Christian city. However, due to their infighting, along with our differences to not also being Latin, very few of the Romans came to help us. Those who chose to come were of very little help toward our cause.
The attack came without any warning, which is normally accustomed to our style of battle. This only further showed the Turks ruthlessness toward our city. Before the Turks gained entrance through our city walls, they had bombarded us for over 50 days. This frightened many of us to which we asked God to help us in our defense. Some of us started public prayer sessions which went on continuously.
As the city is almost peninsular, it consisted of three walls which held it together, along with having the sea based on the North and South end of the city. This meant a naval invasion was likely something which would be soon to …show more content…
These areas were worried of the same fate that happened to Constantinople. Our only hope is that more of the Western areas will be able to put up greater resistance to the Turks. As a result, all of us Christians are now very fearful of Mehmed. For we hear he is now planning to continue up the Danube river to find more areas to plunder and place under his control. Many of us are worried there will no longer be any Christians left in the world after he is done. He has stated that this is his desire. He now believes he will be able to make his way to Rome and destroy the Latin Church as well. This Mehmed has been somewhat kind to the captives he has taken. A Venetian man was sent to Constantinople to ask for the safe return for those citizens to return back to Venice. The Sultan was kind enough to allow them to return. He also allowed those to receive the property back which had not already been
I am afraid it has been the Turkish people who were called the Mongols who now lay claim to the once great Byzantium of the Roman Empire. Before laying siege upon the great city of Byzantium the Turks had been occupying the areas of Pontus and Cappadocia . They initially started as a many gang that mainly …show more content…
So, we had their leader, the Pope, who calls himself Nicholas V, concentrate his politics to bringing together all the Christian princes to help defend our Christian city. However, due to their infighting, along with our differences to not also being Latin, very few of the Romans came to help us. Those who chose to come were of very little help toward our cause.
The attack came without any warning, which is normally accustomed to our style of battle. This only further showed the Turks ruthlessness toward our city. Before the Turks gained entrance through our city walls, they had bombarded us for over 50 days. This frightened many of us to which we asked God to help us in our defense. Some of us started public prayer sessions which went on continuously.
As the city is almost peninsular, it consisted of three walls which held it together, along with having the sea based on the North and South end of the city. This meant a naval invasion was likely something which would be soon to …show more content…
These areas were worried of the same fate that happened to Constantinople. Our only hope is that more of the Western areas will be able to put up greater resistance to the Turks. As a result, all of us Christians are now very fearful of Mehmed. For we hear he is now planning to continue up the Danube river to find more areas to plunder and place under his control. Many of us are worried there will no longer be any Christians left in the world after he is done. He has stated that this is his desire. He now believes he will be able to make his way to Rome and destroy the Latin Church as well. This Mehmed has been somewhat kind to the captives he has taken. A Venetian man was sent to Constantinople to ask for the safe return for those citizens to return back to Venice. The Sultan was kind enough to allow them to return. He also allowed those to receive the property back which had not already been