THE BATTLE OF THE INDUS 1221: How Mongol Forces Routed a Coalition Five Times Their Size скачать в хорошем качестве

THE BATTLE OF THE INDUS 1221: How Mongol Forces Routed a Coalition Five Times Their Size

On November twenty-fourth, twelve twenty-one, according to multiple independent chronicles including Persian, Mongol, and even Georgian sources, Genghis Khan—the man who had just destroyed half the known world—did something he had never done before. He ordered his archers to stop shooting at a fleeing enemy. That enemy was a twenty-two-year-old sultan who had just watched his entire army die, spurring his horse off a twenty-foot cliff into the freezing Indus River. The conqueror of empires struck his hand to his mouth in astonishment and told his sons: "Such a son should a father have." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquests_in_Central_Asia