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Tamerlane's Winter Campaigns: Fighting the Cold
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Tamerlane's winter campaigns—how the conqueror who built an empire from Samarkand to Ankara waged war in the brutal cold of Central Asia and beyond. They look at the 1388 campaign against Tokhtamysh's Golden Horde in the frozen steppe, where Timur's army crossed rivers on ice, and the 1404 march toward China that ended in Otrar, his deathbed. They discuss the role of fur-lined cloaks, yurt camps, and the yam postal system in keeping armies alive, and the strategic advantage of surprise attacks in winter. Through the accounts of Ibn…
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