CONTENTS
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OF THE
TWELFTH VOLUME.
CHAP. LXV.
Elevation of Thrnrur or Tamerlane to the throne of Samarcand.—Hit conquests in Persia, Georgia, Tartary, Russia, India, Syria ,and Anatolia.—His Turkish war.—Defeat and captivity of Ba-jazet-—Death of Timour.—Civil wal of the sons of Bajazet .—Restoration of the Turkish monarchy by Mahomet the First—Siegeof Constantinople by Amurath the Second.
A.D.
Histories of Timour, or Tamerlane 1361-1370 His first adventures ...1370 He ascends the throne of Zagatai1370-1400 His conquests1380-1393 I. Of Persia -1370-1383 II. Of Turkestan1390-1396 Of Kipzak, Russia , &c.
1398, 1399 III. Of Hindostan -
1400 His war against Sultan Bajazet
Timour invades Syria ...Sacks Aleppo -
And Bagdad -
1402 Invades Anatolia -Battle of Angora -
Defeat and captivity of Bajazet The story of bis iron cage disproved by the Per-sian historian of Timour -Attested, 1. by the French -- —, 2. by the Italians
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