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The Sultan's Greatest Defeat: Siege of Rhodes (1480 AD)

70,000 Ottoman soldiers. 160 warships. The largest cannons ever built. And a 57-year-old French knight who refused to break. In 1480, Sultan Mehmed II—the man who destroyed Constantinople—sent his war machine to crush the last crusaders. What happened next changed Mediterranean history forever. THE SIEGE OF RHODES 1480 | Full Documentary In the spring of 1480, the most powerful empire in the world launched an invasion that should have been unstoppable. Sultan Mehmed II—conqueror of Constantinople, destroyer of the Byzantine Empire—assembled 70,000 soldiers, 160 warships, and siege cannons so massive they required 400 men to move. His target: the island fortress of Rhodes, defended by fewer than 6,000 Knights Hospitaller. What followed was one of history's most extraordinary defensive stands. This documentary explores the desperate three-month siege where: Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson led counterattacks while wounded five times Byzantine-born Ottoman commander Mesih Pasha faced his family's former allies Greek fire and medieval engineering held against overwhelming firepower The final assault on July 27th became a slaughter that broke Ottoman morale The Knights Hospitaller—warrior-monks who had fought since the Crusades—transformed Rhodes into an impenetrable fortress. When the Ottomans finally withdrew on August 17th, they left behind 15,000 dead. The defenders had traded lives at a nearly 8-to-1 ratio. The failure at Rhodes so enraged Mehmed that he planned to lead a second invasion personally. He died before he could. The Knights would hold Rhodes for another 42 years. More details on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/aigless... 📚 CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Edge of Annihilation: 6,000 vs 70,000 1:04 - Sons of Satan: Why Mehmed Wanted Rhodes Destroyed 2:26 - The Gathering Storm: Preparing for the Impossible 3:38 - The Conqueror's General: A Byzantine Prince Turned Ottoman Admiral 4:43 - The Walls of Saint John: Medieval Engineering at Its Peak 5:57 - The Bombardment: When Giants Guns Shook the Earth 7:17 - The First Storm: Assault on Saint Nicholas Tower 8:18 - The Siege Tightens: Racing Against Mathematics 9:38 - The Black Flag: No Quarter Given 10:34 - The Final Storm: July 27th, 1480 12:23 - Into the Breach: D'Aubusson's Last Stand 13:56 - The Breaking Point: Ottoman Rout 14:52 - The Withdrawal 16:02 - Aftermath: The Sultan's Rage and Death 17:13 - The Long Shadow: 42 Years of Borrowed Time 🔔 Subscribe for more medieval military history, siege warfare analysis, and Ottoman Empire documentaries. 👍 If you enjoyed this video, consider leaving a like—it helps the algorithm share this history with more viewers. 💬 Discussion Question: Could the Ottomans have won with different tactics? Share your analysis in the comments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 FURTHER READING & SOURCES: Brockman, Eric - "The Two Sieges of Rhodes 1480-1522" Setton, Kenneth M. - "The Papacy and the Levant, Vol. II" Nicholson, Helen - "The Knights Hospitaller" Spiteri, Stephen C. - "Fortresses of the Knights" Crowley, Roger - "Empires of the Sea" Caoursin, Guillaume - Contemporary chronicle (primary source) Vatin, Nicolas - "L'Ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SiegeOfRhodes #KnightsHospitaller #OttomanEmpire #MedievalHistory #MehmedTheConqueror #Crusades #MilitaryHistory #SiegeWarfare #History #Documentary #MilitaryHistory #OttomanEmpire #Medieval #Crusades Medium Volume (Targeted): #SiegeWarfare #MedievalWarfare #Knights #MiddleAges #ByzantineEmpire #IslamicHistory #ChristianHistory #EuropeanHistory #WarDocumentary Niche (High Intent): #KnightsHospitaller #SiegeOfRhodes #MehmedII #Mehmed1480 #Rhodes1480 #PierreDAubusson #Janissaries #MediterraneanHistory #CrusaderStates #GreekFire