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In 2 May 1453 (if i remember correctly) Sultan Mehmed II continued besieging Constantinople.
A small detachment of byzantine troops lead by an officer named Rangaves made a sortie and attacked the Ottomans near St. Romanus Gate.
This sortie caught the Ottomans by surprise but eventually they managed to kill almost every attacker. Rangaves however managed to get through Ottoman lines and reached Sultan Mehmed II but he was able to kill only his personal standard bearer standing in front of the Sultan before he was slain by Sultan's bodyguards...
WI Rangaves managed to kill Mehmed II that day? Would the death of the young Sultan be sufficient to end the siege? Who gets the Ottoman throne then?