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The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks

Note 311 — Chapter XII · THE SIEGE

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Dethier places them on a small plateau now occupied by the English Memorial Church. [Note on Pusculus, book iv. line 482. Professor van Millingen (p. 231), in discussing the question of the position of St. Theodore, suggests that the sultan’s battery stood nearer the Bosporus than the present Italian Hospital. This suggestion is not necessarily at variance with the position indicated by Dethier.]

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