Quote Originally Posted by TB666
What was it that he did ??
I can't remember and Wiki doesn't say anything.
The tower of skulls, 'cementing' live victims into foundations, he was a particularly nasty, cruel person.
Though he claimed descent from Chingis Khan this was, as mentioned already, a means to establish his position. He was lame due to the arrow that he received in his right leg, his right arm was also affected as another arrow hit him, IIRC, in his wrist. Militarily he was very gifted, his armies were extremely disciplined. He placed 'puppet' Khans in power but he pulled the strings. Toqtamish of the White Horde was one of these. He defeated the Golden Horde, uniting both (White and Golden) and with his confidence brimming, started marching into Timurid territory. He retreated when Timur mobilised a huge army to confront him. There was a second attempt but this time Timur decided to teach Toqtamish a lesson for his affrontary. The Timurids were drawn into the wintry steppes and came close to failure but luck was on their side. A Mongol straggler was captured and Timur learned of Toqtamish's position. The Mongol army managed to break the Timurid left flank but inevitably Timur's greater numbers won the day. Timur went on to sack Sarai

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