Qualla: Siege of Corinth (1463) https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Corinth (1463) https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463 Siege of Corinth (1463): Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sixty men changed the course of a war on a dark night in September 1463. They came out of a fortress that was about to fall, charged a Venetian army that vastly outnumbered them, and triggered a panic that lost the entire Peloponnese for Venice. The fortress commander was Elvanoglu Sinan Bey. The Venetian general, Bertoldo d'Este, had every advantage of numbers, equipment, and momentum, and was on the verge of bringing down the walls with artillery when Sinan made his calculation: he would gamble that the Venetians would mistake a sortie for a relief army, and they would break before they understood what was happening. He was right.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/sw8r-siege-of-corinth-1463-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Corinth (1463): Venice Makes Its Move https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. In May 1463, Venice opened its campaign for the Morea, the Peloponnese held by the Ottomans since 1460. The Senate financed an army on a scale it rarely matched: thousands of warriors under the Italian condottiere Bertoldo d'Este, embarked on a fleet of 32 galleys plus auxiliarie...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/sw8r-siege-of-corinth-1463-venice-makes-its-move.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Corinth (1463): The Night Sortie https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Inside the fortress, Sinan Bey watched the walls cracking and concluded that he could not survive a conventional assault. He calculated that an attack from inside, in the dark, when the Venetians were thinking about other things, might still tip the balance. On a moonless night h...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/sw8r-siege-of-corinth-1463-the-night-sortie.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Corinth (1463): The Real Relief Army https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. While the Venetians were still trying to recover from Sinan Bey's sortie, the actual relief force arrived. Sultan Mehmed II had sent reinforcements under Turahanoglu Omer Bey to support Sinan. When that force linked up, the besiegers' position became untenable. Mahmud Pasha's mai...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/sw8r-siege-of-corinth-1463-the-real-relief-army.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Corinth (1463): Cascading Loss https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mahmud Pasha did not stop at Corinth. He marched on the Greek towns that had welcomed the Venetians and reduced them one by one, almost all submitting without further fighting. The Ottoman army entered Leontari without a battle. Turahanoglu Omer Bey raided Venetian-held coastal M...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/siege-of-corinth-1463-wp/sw8r-siege-of-corinth-1463-cascading-loss.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Corinth (1463): What the Walls Remember https://qualla.com/siege-of-corinth-1463/ Photo credit Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Acrocorinth fortress, perched on the limestone monolith above modern Corinth, has been fought over since the Mycenaean age. Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Catalans, Florentines, Knights of Saint John, Venetians, Ottomans, and the army of independent Greece all held it at...

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