Murad II

Big mistake.

And when they all arrived in the court of Sultan Murad II, the sultan didn't quite buy that Vlad II was still on his side because he quite literally was like, "No." He had, after all, done plenty of Ottoman sieging in his time.

So the sultan said that Vlad could go as long as his two sons were left behind as some sort of collateral, one would assume.

Yeah, they're like, "If you leave your sons here with me, you're going to be much less likely to wage war against the Ottomans again."

That's from the History and Decline of the Roman Empire, Volume 4, page 365.

So, the name of the sultan... who allowed this to happen was Murad II.

The emperors of Rome were supposed to be crowned in a building called the Hagia Sophia.

Anybody ever been to the Hagia Sophia? I went there last February.

And you should go watch some YouTube videos on the history of the Hagia Sophia.

A lot of emperors were crowned in that building, but not this Constantine.

The crowning of Constantine only happened because the Ottoman Sultan Murad II allowed it.

And so now the Ottoman Empire is dominating over Eastern Christianity because God is allowing Eastern Christianity to be weakened because they are not following Bible truth.

At the beginning of the afternoon the two centre divisions prepared to clash.

Don John's flagship, Real, directly faced Sultana, the flagship of Muezzinzadi Ali Pasha.

If the clash between Sirocco and Barbarigo was the starter, the clash between Real and Sultana was the main course.

At the centre of the battle, the two supreme commanders came directly together.

The two ships smashed together.

Those Ottomans who boarded the Real were thrown back and waves of Spanish infantry boarded the Sultana, only themselves to be driven back by Ottoman janissaries.

Musketeers, arquebusiers and pikemen fought at close quarters on the crowded decks.

The casualties were horrific.