"The First Arab Siege of Constantinople (674 - 678)" Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Apr 2016 11:43 a.m. PST |
"The first Arab siege of Constantinople is perhaps the single most important military action in the history of Western Civilization. But it is a battle that little is known about. The Umayyad Caliphate was fresh with a sting of victories and backed by the fervor of the new religion of Islam. The "nations" of the West were basically non-existent. If Constantinople had fallen at this point there would have been nothing to stand in the way of an Arab sweep up through the Balkans into central Europe. In the 7th Century the Eastern Roman Empire was under enormous military pressure on multiple fronts for decade after decade. For the Romans, the 7th Century was almost non-stop war, invasions, counter invasions, amphibious operations, battles, sieges and sea battles. The Empire was attacked by a series of enemies – Persians, Slavs and Arabs. In the last of the Roman-Persian Wars (602 – 629 AD) the Empire had almost ceased to exist. The great Roman Emperor Heraclius totally crushed the Persians reducing them to a state of internal anarchy and restored the Eastern Empire…"
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