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Tamerlane's Captive Elephant Corps: Logistics and Symbolism
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore one of the most distinctive military units in Tamerlane's army: his corps of captive war elephants. After his conquest of Delhi in 1398, Timur seized hundreds of Indian elephants and integrated them into his campaigns across Central Asia and the Middle East. They discuss the logistical challenge of moving elephants over the Hindu Kush, the use of elephants in siege warfare against the Ottoman Empire, and the symbolic role of elephants as instruments of terror and prestige. Lucas explains how Timur's chronicler Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi recorded…
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