'Defeat of the Saracenic Fleet Before Constantinople', (717-718), 1890. The Siege of Constantinople (717-718) a combined land and sea offensive by Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against Constantinople and the Byzantine empire.The Arab fleet was almost completely destroyed by natural disasters and Byzantine attacks. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]
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