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Shah Tahmasp's Elephant of War: The Safavid Siege of Kandahar (1537)
Long before Shah Abbas I reclaimed Kandahar, his grandfather Shah Tahmasp undertook a forgotten campaign to crush the Mughal threat in the east. This episode follows the Safavid army's grueling march through Khorasan, the devastating use of war elephants in the Arghandab valley, and the diplomatic fallout with the Mughal Emperor Humayun, who was then exiled in Persia. We explore the logistics of Safavid elephant warfare, the role of Qizilbash cavalry alongside these massive beasts, and how Tahmasp's victory at Kandahar in 1537 foreshadowed later conflicts between the two empires. Along the…
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