Timur: The Conqueror Who Rebuilt the Mongol Terror and Left Nothing Standing

He captured the sultan who was strangling Constantinople — and bought the city another fifty years. Most readers cannot place his name.In July 1402, outside Ankara, the most feared army in Europe was destroyed in a single day by an army from Samarkand. The Ottoman sultan Bayezid — conqueror of the last great crusade, besieger of Constantinople — ended the day a prisoner. His empire fell into a dec...