How Mehmet II Transformed the Ottoman Army Forever
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Mehmet the Conqueror is immortalized for the 1453 fall of Constantinople, but his true triumph was military centralization. He overhauled the Ottoman war machine by standardizing pay, expanding the Devshirme, bolstering the Janissaries, and fusing traditional Turkic tactics with state-of-the-art gunpowder artillery. Discover the visionary reforms that turned a frontier sultanate into an unstoppable global superpower! #OttomanEmpire #MehmetTheConqueror #HistoryShorts #MilitaryHistory #Janissaries #Constantinople
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