11-24-2003, 08:10 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>but I think I vaguely recall that Constantinople and it's meagre posessions actually held out, army and all, till the mid-15th century..<hr><br>
Contstantiople fell in 1453; the Empire of Trebizond, a Byzantine enclave farther east, lasted until 1461. But by the end the Byzantine army had little to distinguish it from other European armies, IIRC, because it was composed to a great degree by mercenaries. <p></p><i></i>
Contstantiople fell in 1453; the Empire of Trebizond, a Byzantine enclave farther east, lasted until 1461. But by the end the Byzantine army had little to distinguish it from other European armies, IIRC, because it was composed to a great degree by mercenaries. <p></p><i></i>
