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Timur
saidundated
It is better to be at the right place with ten men than absent with ten thousand.
— Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker (Garden City Publishing Co, 1928) p. 123. Variant: 'on hand' instead of 'at the
Timur
The founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
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Lived 1336–1405, aged 69
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The last great nomadic conqueror of the Eurasian Steppe, he went undefeated in battle and styled himself the restorer of Genghis Khan's legacy. His campaigns killed millions and laid waste to vast stretches of three continents.
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Born into the Turkicized Mongol Barlas confederation in Transoxiana in the 1320s, Timur seized control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370 and from there launched conquests that toppled the Khans of the Golden Horde, the Mamluk Sultanate, the rising Ottomans, and the Delhi Sultanate, making him the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world. He called himself the "Sword of Islam" and sought to revive the Mongol Empire, speaking Chagatai, Mongolian, and Persian as he moved. His armies were multi-ethnic and much feared; scholars estimate his military campaigns caused the deaths of millions, wit…
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Timur
saidundated
It is good to go swiftly and break an enemy’s power, before he has mustered his full strength. No greater army should be taken than can be maintained on the way.
— Attributed in Harold Lamb, Tamerlane (1928) p. 123
Timur
saidundated
Those of the inhabitants who were left died (of famines and pestilence), while for two months not a bird moved wing in Delhi.
— ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni. Quoted in A. L. Srivastava, The Sultanate of Delhi (Agra, 1950)
Timur
saidundated
They met near a city called Augury, where they fought desperately. Weyasit had quite thirty thousand men of White Tartary, whom he placed in the van at the battle.
— Johann Schiltberger, Reisebuch, ch. 13 (tr. J. Buchan Telfer, 1879)
Timur
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The Alcoran says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion.
— Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Zafarnama. Quoted in Robert Spencer, The History of Jihad (2018)
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