The sack of Constantinople by crusaders and Venetians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. A strong north wind helped the Venetian ships near the Golden Horn to come close to the city wall, this enabled the attackers to seize some of the towers along the wall, they carried the low sea-wall by running gangway bridges onto it from the mastheads of galleys coupled together.

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