5 Summary

An implacable warrior

There're many references of Tamerlán's merciless character. For example when Isfahán's city gave up itself and left his her garrison there, they finished with it. He it returned to assault the city and ordered that each of the seventies thousand soldiers should bring a head of an habitant of the city, with which he constructed a pyramid in the entry of the city. All that un 1387. In 1398, in the conquest of the India, odered to execut approximately hundred thousand indian prisoners for not retarding the march.


History, National Geographic n. 51 p. 14