Mehmed II Al-Fatih, or as known as Mehmed II The Conqueror or the Grand Siegneur was among the most prominent figures of the Muslim history, or maybe the world due to his successful campaigns that brought down the powerful Byzantine Empire upon his feet. But he didn't do it alone. His best army helped him very much, and not to forget, God himself had helped him through the campaigns. I'll show you the fact of this Turkish Sultan.

The Fact -

1 - The Europeans called him The Grand Siegneur (The Great Conqueror).

2 - No one had ever defeated the Byzantine Empire in large wars, and nobody had ever conquered Constantinople. But this Turkish dude conquered Constantinople and exterminated Byzantine Empire from the world all by himself and his Ottoman army without any help from any other empires and states as well.

3 - He conquered Constantinople in his 21 years old of age. Too young to be a great commander, but that was the fact.

4 - He never left his obligated prayer and midnight prayer from the day he reached his age of puberty until he died.

5 - He didn't only ordered the army to build the Rumeli Hisari Fort near Constantinople, he did strip off his coat and turban, and joined them to build the fort.

6 - He was among the first generations that used the early cannon. We call it the Ottoman Basilica Giant Bombard.

7 - Believe it or not, there was several miracles happened to him.

Miracle (Retrieved from Mehmed Al-Fatih's diary and journals by Syamsuddin Ba'q) -

One of them was when he find the still-intact body of Prophet Muhammad's companion named Ayyub Al-Ansari. When the army discover the body, which was still intact, he ordered them to retrieve his body and then bury him according to the Muslim's burial custom with respect. They discovered the leg part first, so this Turkish dude ordered them to kiss the leg part in honor to the companion. But when he tried to kiss it, the leg suddenly was pulled deep into the ground. That happened for 3 times.

When he slept on his prayer mat after his midnight prayer, he dreamed about Ayyub Al-Ansari came to him and explained about the miracle. Ayyub Al-Ansari was embarrassed and had a great respect towards the one that will conquer Constantinople. He told Mehmed that he shall not let the future Conqueror of Constantinople kiss his leg part, for he deserved more than that.

8 - This Turkish dude took only 53 days to conquer Constantinople despite of the thick 11 layers Byzantine fortress wall which is way too hard to be destroyed into rubble.

9 - His military strategies was the greatest strategy in the world. It started with the Byzantine put the big iron chain across the Golden Horn Entrance, blocking the Ottoman navy from entering further into the Golden Horn straits.

What did he do?! he ordered the cutting down of trees through a mountain side surrounding the city. He then ordered for several barrels of oil and grease to be brought. Without the knowledge of his enemies, he ordered for the timber to be laid on the landward side around the Chain boom from the Bosporus region all the way up to the Golden Horn. The logs were then greased to facilitate the transportation of 70 of the Muslim ships 3 miles over rough, mountainous land, around the massive chain boom, into the Golden Horn inlet from where he had planned to launch his surprise attack. Amazingly enough, he had miraculously accomplished this task in the cover of a single night.

10 - He prevented his armies from pillaging and plundering Constantinople after he conquered it. He even gave his words to protect all the Christians, their belongings and their monasteries. However he transfered Hayya Sofia church into a mosque as a big sign of him had conquered Constantinople.

11 - This Turkish dude loved flowers very much. :)

Okay, I know some of you will be thinking like, "OMG, what the fuck are you telling us this shit?" and keep on being ignorance all the time, but mark my words dude, a history is a history, no matter how do you hate this dude, history will look at him as among the greatest person in the world. He was a great leader, a great conqueror.

Bye... have a nice day and to all the Muslims out there, Happy Ramadhan Al-Mubarak.

References -

http://www.ottomanartifacts.com/2009/04/muhammad-al-fatihs-supreme-conquest.html

http://amrkhaled.net/articles/articlesprint732.html

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/946/tr3.htm

http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/history1400.asp