Today's installment concludes Constantinople Taken by the Western Crusaders,our selection from The Fall of Constantinople Being the Story of the

The Hagia Sophia, the greatest church building in the world was desecrated.Continuing Constantinople Taken by the Western Crusaders,our selection

The total amount distributed among the crusaders and Venetians shows that the wealth of Constantinople had not been exaggerated.Continuing

The sack of the richest city in Christendom, which had been the bribe offered to the crusaders to violate their oaths, was made in the spirit of men

The inhabitants were at length awakened out of the dream of security into which seventeen unsuccessful attempts to capture the New Rome had lulled