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TIMUR BEG.
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hanged by order of the conqueror; thus tarnishing one
of his greatest victories by an act which must ever
remain a foul blot upon his name. Toktamish was
pursued ; but he contrived to cross the Wolga with a
few officers and escape into Bulgaria. Timur now
appointed one of his own nobles Khan or sovereign
of Kipchak, and sent him to collect together the scat-
tered forces of that country, leaving him in possession
of a subdued and impoverished kingdom. The Jaga-
tay army on its return ravaged the conquered pro-
vinces, and collected an immense booty, consisting of
gold and silver, precious stones, furs, and slaves.
As he had now no enemy to engage his amis, the
emperor, resolving to become master of all Asia to
the north, crossed the Dnieper, or Borysthenes of the
ancients, and entered the great desert which leads
into Europe. Encountering the Uzbecks, he slew
vast numbers of them, and obliged them to evacuate
the country. Changing his route, the victorious Ja-
gatay led his army towards Muscovy. Arriving at
Moscow, he pillaged it, laid waste the neighbouring
provinces, and thus amassed a prodigious quantity of
treasure. Having set at liberty all the Mohamme-
dans who had been made captives by the Russians,
and put a great number of the latter to the sword,
he marched to Azoph, a fortified town on the eastern
extremity of the lake of that name in Asiatic Russia,
on the confines of Tartary, and finally encamped be-
fore the Circassian capital, whence he despatched the
two princes Mohammed Sultan and Miran Shah into
Circassia, which they quickly subdued, and returned
to the imperial camp laden with spoil.
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89
hanged by order of the conqueror; thus tarnishing one
of his greatest victories by an act which must ever
remain a foul blot upon his name. Toktamish was
pursued ; but he contrived to cross the Wolga with a
few officers and escape into Bulgaria. Timur now
appointed one of his own nobles Khan or sovereign
of Kipchak, and sent him to collect together the scat-
tered forces of that country, leaving him in possession
of a subdued and impoverished kingdom. The Jaga-
tay army on its return ravaged the conquered pro-
vinces, and collected an immense booty, consisting of
gold and silver, precious stones, furs, and slaves.
As he had now no enemy to engage his amis, the
emperor, resolving to become master of all Asia to
the north, crossed the Dnieper, or Borysthenes of the
ancients, and entered the great desert which leads
into Europe. Encountering the Uzbecks, he slew
vast numbers of them, and obliged them to evacuate
the country. Changing his route, the victorious Ja-
gatay led his army towards Muscovy. Arriving at
Moscow, he pillaged it, laid waste the neighbouring
provinces, and thus amassed a prodigious quantity of
treasure. Having set at liberty all the Mohamme-
dans who had been made captives by the Russians,
and put a great number of the latter to the sword,
he marched to Azoph, a fortified town on the eastern
extremity of the lake of that name in Asiatic Russia,
on the confines of Tartary, and finally encamped be-
fore the Circassian capital, whence he despatched the
two princes Mohammed Sultan and Miran Shah into
Circassia, which they quickly subdued, and returned
to the imperial camp laden with spoil.
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