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Timur's Final Campaign: The March on Ming China
In late 1399, the sixty-eight-year-old Timur gathered his army in Transoxiana with a singular, audacious goal: to invade the Ming Dynasty and claim the title of Padishah of all Islam. This episode traces that final, fatal march eastward toward the borders of China. We explore the logistical nightmare of moving a multi-hundred-thousand-strong force across the Taklamakan Desert and the Gobi, the diplomatic overtures sent to the Yongle Emperor, and the political fractures within the Mongol successor states that fueled Timur’s ambition. When illness struck at Otrar in February 1405, the campaign…
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