Casting with fate
Summer 1261. Alexius Strategopoulos crossed the Hellespont and arrived at Gallipoli, where he decided to approach Constantinople from the west. His mission was to threaten the city, and gauge the response of the Latin garrison.
He was able to move right up to the city walls. Thanks to the reconquests of the Laskarid emperors, especially John Vatatzes, th…
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