Fetih (Conquest) 1453 | Preparing the Cannonball

Fetih 1453 - Conquest 1453
Director : Faruk Aksoy
Producer : Faruk Aksoy
Production Co : Aksoy Film
Screenplay: Atilla Engin
Director Of Photography : Mirsad Herovic - Hasan Gergin
Music : Benjamin Wallfisch
Costume Designer : Canan Goknil
Stars : Devrim Evin, İbrahim Celikkol, Dilek Serbest, Cengiz Coskun
Genres : History, Action, Drama, Love, War
Release Date: 2012 Runtime: 162 Min.
Either I will conquer Istanbul or Istanbul will conquer me.. Sultan Mehmet Han,
in 1453, The Byzantine capital of constantinople was surrounded by the Ottoman Turks.The city was merly a shadow of its former glory due to the empire's ever receding coffers, while the Ottoman Empire continued to grow rich. after years of tolerating the existence of byzantium, the ambitions Sultan, Mehmet II launched his campaing to end the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for the Ottomans, resulting in the greatest siege of that age.

[@justsomerandomguynamedsam3657]

No wonders it took 3 hours to reload, amazing

[@cyrusmallison6157]

I think it took 3 hours to cool down so it could fire again.

[@mohammadasifbhat6530]

No wonders it took many days to built a wall it shuns down in one shot 🧿

[@JuanPuercoIsCalling]

16.8 Tons, 3 hours to reload, frickin decimated the walls, that cannon should’ve continued it’s existence.

[@tylerellis9097]

@@JuanPuercoIsCalling Lol this show isn’t remotely accurate, historically it barely damaged the wall and was a failure. Orhan the creator himself died when one of the cannons misfuctioned and exploded on him.

[@deadpirate625]

@@tylerellis9097 many sources said it caused a massive damage to the wall. it would be nice if you tell us where did you get that 'barely'. I hope your ego is not one of them.

[@satyakammisra]

The top could only fire 3-4 times per day. Some taking a 500kg canon ball. You can see one of them at the museum today in Istanbul. Technology won. Sultan was smart and used religious fervor, technology, superior attack/siege tactics and had a multi-ethnic force. Technology also was downfall of Ottoman empire. They forgot what made them great and post WW1, results showed.

[@joannes4321]

id say the main reason the sultan won in 1453 is due to him fighting a war against a literal city. This was not the great roman empire of legend he was fighting, it was a weakened greek rump state which was attacked from every angle for about 300 years prior to this event and even before. There is nothing commendable about 1453. The romans were fish in a barrel. Only thing commendable about 1453 is the honorable Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, who died with a sword in his hand for his people.

[@joannes4321]

@Huso Ucar We didn’t lose. We never lost. Rome lives on even if the empire itself has been long gone. Everywhere i look i see Rome. Anyways, the shit flinging mess that was the ottoman empire lasted for a measly 600 years. Sad. Cope and seethe barbarian

[@joannes4321]

@Huso Ucar European cities as in Paris, Berlin and London. Aka shithole barbarian countries. The Romans still exist to this day, as do the Ottomans. Rómi aníkiti.

[@farizkeren5730]

@@joannes4321 Do remember that Orban's massive bombards, while capable of dealing tremendous damage to Constantinople's western wall, is so difficult to reload and tend to overheat. This means that the cannons can only be fired a few times every day, thus giving the defenders enough time to make a hasty patch job on the walls. They also managed to block the Golden Horn with a chain, preventing the Ottoman fleet from flanking them. Both of these factors, combined with Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos' charisma and ability to uplift the morale of Constantinople's populace and defenders, and the willingness of everyone in the city to defend it (soldiers, peasants, Genoan mercenaries, and members of the Christian Church, Catholic and Orthodox alike), turns a swift fall into a long, drawn out siege. Only when Mehmet II orders his fleet to move the ships overland into the Golden Horn, circumventing the chain and allowing the fleet to break Constantinople's thinner northern wall, that the tide of battle turns to the Ottomans' favor. This also caused confusion, as some defenders of the western wall hastily moved to defend the northern wall against Ottoman bombardments. When the Ottomans begin their final assault on the wall, the Genoan commander got mortally wounded, thus routing his men. The Ottomans then managed to take control on the outer and inner walls of the west side, and even managed to capture the Kerkoporta, one of Constantinople's gates. Emperor Constantine then lead a final assault to take the gate back from the Ottomans, and died in battle

[@joannes4321]

@@farizkeren5730 Ottomans would have won either way, 80,000+ ottoman soldiers against 11,000 roman soldiers couldn’t be won. The Theodosian walls were crumbling before the siege even began from crusaders and bulgars. Nothing about the battle from the ottoman perspective is strategically impressive. Big ass bombard go boom. The ships crossing land into the golden horn isn’t a new thing, the romans did the exact same thing in the siege of nicaea.

[@torreeric499]

1:14 this method of moving heavy object is really impressive... 😊👍

[@The1RlyShadow]

I agree, but at the same time it's very simple.. The problem today is we always think back then, they were still simple lol. They were every bit as smart as we are today if not smarter, just the technology we take for granted wasn't found yet.

[@izhankhan7263]

Byzantine : walls of this city is unbreakable. Ottomans, how about I broke it anyways?

[@faizankazmi996]

Mother of All Cannons

[@adriandapat1206]

"Making Mother of all Cannons here Constantine XI. Can't fret over every smaller cannon."

[@yldrmbayezid8643]

Everyone gangsta untill sahi top is destroying your walls

[@FarukN]

Filmi yapanlar Türk kanka

[@kiunzey]

I remember watching this during my school's movie night and that time, everyone said "WoOoOoOoH!" when they take out the cannon at 1:30. Good times.

[@lifes40123]

U guys get to watch this at school?

[@kiunzey]

@@lifes40123 Yeah, in secondary school. We watched the sub version of the movie.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

@@kiunzey " secondary school " European im guessing ? Here in the US states can get picky with what they teach kids so some people might not even really know about stuff like this let alone get shown it in school. I am lucky to have grown up in a left leaning state where they do show more then just US marching on natzis and brits and so on , but even then I've had to do a lot of digging myself to learn about things like Memet II siege .

[@kiunzey]

@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 no, I'm in Malaysia (Southeast Asia). The school levels in Malaysia are: Primary school(for kids aged 7 - 12) Secondary school (for teens aged 13 - 17) The education system in Malaysia is similar to that of United Kingdom.

[@amirulakmal97]

Ape tajuk movie ni?

[@stber4433]

The cannon was so huge and heavy that around 100 yaks have used to pull it around !

[@adankmeme651]

I really wondered how the hell the ottomans loaded their huge ass cannons and if they were shot at a ship It wold probably obliterate it completely!

[@WallyBDO]

@@adankmeme651 the answer is they didn't These oversized pieces were often abandoned or not brought along due to terrain being impassable with even a little rain as the massive guns sank into the mud

[@euclois]

i read it was 6 ox

[@TheIronHordesman2]

@@euclois 40 Oxes minimum, the cannons weighed probably around 10-20 tonnes each. Also, around 200 men were known to aide the oxes on the towing aswell.

[@ComradeHellas]

Fun fact, Urban offered his services to Emperor Paleologos first.

[@ComradeHellas]

@menkrep1337 Yes the Emperor of Rome didn't want to hire him so Mehmed II hired him.

[@mukhtarsyajaratun1025]

@@ComradeHellas But why he didnt offer his services to Hungary? SInce he was a Hungarian

[@ComradeHellas]

@@mukhtarsyajaratun1025 Good question, I read about it and found out that Orban was from a Transylvanian Saxon city (Brasov), and even if he was ethnically Hungarian, national allegiance wasn't a thing back then. Secondly he was later hired by the Hingarians in the 1460s I suppose they didn't want to hire him during peacetime by the time of the siege of Constantinople 1453.

[@kakireviewtv8554]

Fuck you Don't know history

[@dimifisher7942]

@@mukhtarsyajaratun1025 no he didnt have enough money to pay him

[@0lintana]

Not an really fun fact but, they used to shoot this canon untill it exploded!! So yes, the crew died along with the canon!!!

[@leonarslan]

Actually only two of them exploded at conquest and today u can see them in 1453 museum in istanbul. They're real huge than ur imagine.

[@JohnDoeeWoah]

Fatih Sultan Mehmet, during the conquest of Istanbul, transported about 70 ships over land in one night to bypass a chain blocking the Golden Horn. This event occurred in 1453, and the Ottoman fleet's ships were moved from the land between Galata and Sarayburnu into the Golden Horn. This strategic move played a significant role in the conquest of the city.

[@syariefdirgantara7670]

Magnificent empire, magnificent peoples, magnificent cannon

[@BezdomniakPL]

boop, bop pow

[@Epopteya]

Barbaric empire, you mean

[@maurogamboa8527]

Ah yes, europe never did dis

[@JimWehr]

​@@Epopteya😂 don't cry

[@Wholspowerful]

muslim or christian does not matter all wars are based on production competition

[@zaaz7517]

they fight for god not for progress

[@islamicschoolofmemestudies]

This needs more view!!!

[@CielD01]

I wonder if this Canon can penetrate the wall of Ba Sing Se..

[@mikeshogunlee]

Impossible! The Walls of Ba Sing Se have stood for 1000 years!

[@DBT1007]

joke aside, yes this cannon can. the canon ball is a pure solid stone and with some fire force around that stone. but they're earth bender. they can easily repair the wall.. Wall of Ba Sing Se just purely made from sandstone thingy, right? And dont have layers. Even that Fire Nation drills can drill the wall but then Aang stops it. And btw, that drill vs ba sing se wall maybe inspired by this event. Ottoman Huge Canon vs Thick n Tall Wall.

[@lordgrunwalder1607]

@@DBT1007 also thats how romans stand that long After the canons shoot they tooked 3 hour to reload, and during that time byzantine workers fixed walls, imagine how fast a few earth bender can fix the walls But I have a idea, what about a burning canonball that hitting to sandatone that hard its turning it into glass and shatter it? Or a canonball maded from soft lead that its spreading and filling the holes its opened with metal plates.

[@nihiqallam5616]

@@lordgrunwalder1607 earth bender?

[@cplmajbox7629]

You don’t have to worry about that because there is no war in Ba Sing Se

[@AlexenderPeskov]

The promised king by the prophet to conquer the byzantine empire

[@g-botz6983]

Satu pelor yg meruntuhkan benteng terkuat Romawi

[@davidlee723]

dat ball do be big doe

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

These guns would later be uses against the British....in 1807

[@farizkeren5730]

@Huso Ucar The Dardanelles guns are a bunch of bombards built based on Orban's blueprints, but smaller. A miniature, so to speak

[@farizkeren5730]

@Huso Ucar It is smaller, but still massive for a cannon, and definitely works well as an anti-ship weapon. It is also faster to reload, and less likely to blow up from overheating Dardanelles Gun: 17 ft, 16.8 tons Orban's Gun: 27 ft, around 354 tons (1 ox can pull around 5.9 tons of weight, and it took 60 oxen to pull the gun all the way to Constantinople) (the cannon has to be sturdy enough to not be destroyed every time it fires) And of course it's not an exact replica, the techniques used to built the Dardanelles Gun is more advanced than the ones used by Orban

[@Job781]

I love history like this.

[@el_chico1313]

fun fact: most muslim fanstics refer to ottoman empire as the great carrier of islams, yet they forget thst the ottoman wanted to see themselves as romans and integrated a multi religious and ethnic empire with a policy if leniency towards all religious minorities

[@novel9481]

yeah roma but muslim one, so they are right

[@sayur1294]

we're not racist, unlike other religions

[@HermannTeinenzorg]

Anda terjebak dalam propaganda film ala barat

[@fathanthoriq2413]

So a tolerant empire? Wow, moar admiration

[@syedahmedshaheer117]

Romans can be Muslim lol. And ottomans called themselves caliphate which by definition is carrier of islam

[@el_chico1313]

watching this at 3am no idea why

[@halam899live8]

Me too 🤣

[@izhankhan7263]

Same 😂

[@MohammadRfaye-ij2nc]

0:30 🔥🔥🔥

[@MustafaKaraca32]

Roses are red, violets are blue, Visit the Ottoman, before they visit you (always welcome, we like guests)

[@vinzentjuanlopez3675]

so its like that one attack that is broken but long cooldown?

[@arifnurbain7722]

Wow basillica cannon

[@inflames433]

M249 takes much time to reload technology going good

[@GuderII]

Yeeeaaaahhh

[@polbasilio8290]

So this is what happened before the collapse of the Twin Towers.

[@adventurer5125]

But the largest and biggest cannon till date which were effective in war were jaivana cannon and malik e maidan ( both are in india)

[@lambeefbiryani08]

When they said need 3 hours to Reload

[@christopherstehn1716]

age of empires 3

[@Fundamentalis_313]

Medieval Gustav Gun

[@slambam2665]

I would definitely go for subtitles

[@AbidmansurAdi]

Turgut @2:27 anyone confirm????

[@Tekir-Kedi]

True thats him

[@mybytes673]

Pristine manufacturing technology at that time.

[@T_frog1]

Why do they have Santa Claus hats at 0:32 ?

[@abdelmalekmetidji]

Cause they are about to drop some gifts on the Byzantines 😊 .

[@thanos8028]

east rome

[@sakpcan9639]

30.like

[@rickyyacine4818]

see that why i hate hungray so much

[@arakkopchanel7208]

Lol

[@rickyyacine4818]

@@arakkopchanel7208 why u betrayed Constantinople 😢😢😢

[@saraelmi875]

@@rickyyacine4818 lol

[@HY10101]

This Cannon designed by Mehmet Khan and produced by three engineers (cannon blacksmiths) including them Master Urban

[@MML-gk5xc]

Hugarian are turcs too. And Orban proposed his service to the Byzantin empror first.

[@Radiotrfm]

OTTOMAN EMPİRE IS destroying the your walls ahahahahahab cry