• Thus began the sack of Constantinople, the richest city of all Europe. Nobody controlled the troops. Thousands of defenseless civilians were killed.
  • The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of...
  • A contemporary Greek historian who was an eyewitness to the sack of Constantinople in 1204 described atrocities of which he had thought human beings incapable
  • How To Cite This Article: "The Sack of Constantinople, 1453" EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2011).
  • Frank T. Marzials, (London: J.M. Dent, 1908) Phillips, Jonathon, Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, (New York: Viking Press, 2004).
  • The Sack of Constantinople, April 1204. A S THE MASS of crusaders started to plunder Constantinople their leaders moved swiftly to secure the city.
  • Only a mere handful of the Crusaders continued on to the Holy Land after the sack of Constantinople, however, belying their stated motives.
  • The Sack of Constantinople in 1204 by forces of the Fourth Crusade remains one of the most significant and controversial events in medieval history.
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