Ulubatlı Hasan

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Ulubatlı Hasan (Ottoman Turkish: الوباطلى حسن), also known as Baba Hasan Ağa the Standard Bearer (Ottoman Turkish: سنجاقدار بابا حسن آغا) or Baba Hasan-ı ‘Alemî (Ottoman Turkish: بابا حسنِ عَلَمِى) (c. 1428, Ulubat, Karacabey, Bursa – 29 May 1453, Istanbul), was the sekbanbaşı who erected the first standard on the Byzantine walls during the Conquest of Constantinople. He was born in a small village called Ulubat (near Karacabey) in the province of Bursa and was 25 years old when he was present at the Siege of Constantinople, under the command of Sultan Mehmed II. On the early morning of the last day of the siege, May 29, after the morning prayer, the Ottoman military band started to play one of their songs before the city was stormed. Ulubatlı Hasan was among the first to climb the walls of Constantinople, followed closely by thirty of his friends. He carried only an Ottoman kilij, a small shield and the Ottoman flag. He climbed the wall, under showers of arrows, stones, spears and bullets...

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