Friday, July 17, 2009

To Fight the Unbeatable Foe

Timur the Lame, or Tamberlane, was in fact lame. But that didn't stop him from conquering 'all the known world', including a swathe of India. He razed Delhi in 1398 after overcoming the formidable barriers of high alps and charging elephants. What does one do when faced with 120 chain-mailed, scimitar-tusked beasts in a roaring charge, and backed by massed infantry of a vastly superior number?
Read Timur's very creative solution here . . .

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