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A33328	The life of Tamerlane the Great with his wars against the great Duke of Moso, the King of China, Bajazet the Great Turk, the Sultan of Egypt, the King of Persia, and some others ... : wherein are rare examples of heathenish piety, prudence, magnanimity, mercy, liberality, humility, justice, temperance, and valour.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1653 (1653)	Wing C4535; ESTC R3775	50,971	60

the City there he continued two or three dayes giving the City many Alarms till the Infantry led by that brave Christian Genuois shewed themselves in the plaine of Paguinfou Then was the City summoned but they returned answer That they were resolved to live and die in the service of their Prince By the way you must understand that about fourty yeers before the Father of this present King of China had conquered this City and Country from the Tartars and had so planted the same with new Colonies that but few of the Tartarians remained but onely in the flat Country and some small walled Towns who all came with their keyes and willingly submitted to Tamerlane whereby he had great plenty of victuals in his Army which made him hope for good success there being nothing that doth sooner overthrow great Armies then the want thereof Thus was Paguinfou besieged round the footmen lying within a slight-shoot of the walls the Citizens and souldiers using their best indeavours for their defence and Tamerlane doing the like for their offence Axalla having viewed a great Suburb which was in length almost half a league supposed that the Citizens kept no watch there therfore acquainting the Emperor with his purpose in the first watch of the night his men being all ready with sealing ladders he assaulted the same in sundry places and after a great fight entred and cut in pieces at least eight thousand men which were within the same yet on one side where they expected to be assaulted he lost many of his men The tkaing of this Suburb did greatly astonish the Citizens who observing the valour of the Tartarians began to suspect their own safety by this Suburb there ran a river which being now under the command of Axalla he stopt all provision from going to the City In the mean time the King of China's Army approached which was very great whereupon the Emperor determined to go in person and meet him with the greatest part of his horsemen but to leave most of his foot to continue the siege being very desirous to take the City for the accelerating whereof he caused his Engines for battery to approach as Rams and such like so that the City was assaulted on two sides very couragiously and in the end thorow the valour of Axalla who gave an assault with twenty thousand of his best souldiers he won the wall and at the command of the Emperor lodged there who desired rather to have the City by Treaty then storme the City being great and rich and the enemy but thirty leagues from thence and therefore he feared lest his Army should be found in disorder and knowing also that rich souldiers never fight well Besides he intended to draw out of that wealthy City such things as he stood in need of and to make it his magazine for the time to come Yet though the wall was won the enemies wanted not heart to defend themselves valiantly hearing that their King was coming for their reliefe but it so happened that an Engine shooting a bullet slew the governour whereupon the Citizens were so discouraged that they resolved to yield saving their lives and the souldiers to march away with horse and armes The conditions were admitted and there came out of the City eighteen thousand souldiers almost all the inhabitants remaining behind This siege had lasted two moneths and the City had in it at first thirty thousand souldiers Axalla had the honour of winning this City and therefore was made Governour of it and all the Country belonging to it but he beseeched the Emperor to bestow it upon some other person reserving for himself the hope of his Master in whose fortune he would take part This gave great content to Tamerlane who much desired the service of Axalla and upon this refusal the charge was conferred upon the Prince of Thanais with the title of Vice-Roy Then did Tamerlane give notice of his affaires to the old Emperor and having paid his souldiers and settled all things in the best manner he could he marched forward and taking a general Muster of his whole Army Horse and Foot he found them to be diminished ten thousand men only And so with his Army he spent one whole day in prayer calling upon the immortal invisible and invincible and incomprehensible God and then went directly to meet the enemy who was at Sintehu with all his own the forces of his allies and as soon as he received news that Tamerlane's Army was advanced over the River of Chulifu the King of China marched directly to them with great magnificence there was nothing to be seen in his Army but Gold and precious stones He himself usually rode in a Chariot whereof every part shone with Gold Pearles Rubies and Diamonds He was of the age of about three and thirty and had been brought up in pleasures not under the bloody Ensigne of Mars So that he was very insolent in threatenings bravadoes and defying to the battel He often accused Tamerlane for surprizing him before he was ready not giving him warning c. The rumour of his riches sired the spirits of the Tartarians that they longed to be at the battel and so both sides hasted forwards and in the way there was a City called Tunichevoy surrendred to Tamerlane which afforded him much refreshing for his Army and thus the two Armies drawing neer together Tamerlane made choice of a place in his judgement most advantageous for the battel and having set down to Odmar the order which he would have to be observed he longed to see his enemy then did he send before him five or six thousand horse as Scouts under Calibes and himself went with them and having viewed the great confused Army of his enemies which came continually forward he commanded Calibes to retire himself so soon as they drew neer to him And bring saith he this great cloud to me which I hope soon to disperse and so retiring to his Army he encouraged them assuring them of the victory He placed all his footmen which were about a hundred and twenty thousand along a mountaine planting great store of Artillery for their guard many of his foot-souldiers were armed after the Christian manner who were all commanded by Axalla His horsemen were in Battalia in a great plaine who upon any disadvantage could retire to the assistance of the Footmen the horsemen were eighty thousand Calibes with the Scythians were in the Avantguard being thirty thousand horse who were to receive Odmar when he should retreat from the enemy as he was commanded thirty thousand more were appointed for Odmar and Tamerlane himself remained in the Areare at one of the wings of his footmen His purpose was to let that sixty five thousand horse under two such gallant Captaines to break the force of the enemy hoping after them to have a good market causing his foot to march forward and reserving

behind me who shall march in two squadrons and for my Arereward I appoint fourty thousand horse and fifty thousand footmen who shall not march but to my aid And I will make choice of ten thousand of my best horse whom I will send into every place where I shall think needful within my Army for to impart my commands Over the first fourty thousand horse the Prince of Ciarchan commanded over the formost footmen was the Lord Synopes a Genovois kinsman to Axalla and his Lieutenant over the footmen a Captaine of great estimation The Prince Axalla's charge consisted of five squadrons of horsemen Bajazet's Army also being faire and great came bravely still on forwards towards their enemies who stirred not a whit from the place which they had chosen for the battel except certaine lighthorsemen Scythians Parthians and Muscovites who sent out as loose men hotly skirmished between the two Armies Tamerlane was informed by a Spie that Bajazet was on foot in the midest of thirty thousand Janizaries his principal men of war and greatest strength wherein he meant that day to fight and in whom he had reposed his greatest hope His battel of horse was very faire amounting to the number of one hundred and fourty thousand all old souldiers The Sultan of Egypt having also sent to his aide thirty thousand Mamelukes all excellent good horsemen with thirty thousand footmen so that his Army marching all in a front in the form of an half Moon seemed almost as great as Tamerlane's These Turkes with infinite number of horrible cries still advanced forwards Tamerlanes souldiers all the while standing still with very great silence Never was there a more furious charge then the Turkes gave upon the Prince of Ciarchan who was commanded not to fight till the enemy came unto him neither could there have been chosen a fairer plaine and where the skilful choice of place gave less advantage either to the one or to other only Tamerlane had a River of the left side of the Army serving him to some small advantage Now this young Prince of Ciarchan with his fourty thousand horse was in the first encounter almost wholly overthrown yet having fought right valiantly and entred even into the middest of the Janizaries where the person of Bajazet was putting them into disorder was himself there slaine About which time Axalla set upon them with his squadrons but not with the like danger for having overthrown one of the enemies wings and cut it all to pieces and his footmen coming to joyn with him as was appointed he faced the Battalion of the Janizaries who right valiantly behaved themselves for the safety of their Prince This furious fight continued an hour and yet you could not have seen any scattered but the one still resolutely fighting against the other You might there have seen the horsemen like mountaines rushing together and infinite numbers of men dying crying lamenting and threatening all at the same instant Tamerlane had patience all this while to see the event of this so mortal a fight but perceiving his men at last to begin to give ground he sent ten thousand of his horse to joyn with the ten thousand appointed for the Rereward commanding them to assist him when they saw that he had need and so himself gave a furious charge and made them to give him room causing the footmen also to charge over whom the Prince of Thanais commanded who gave a gallant charge upon the Battalion of Janizaries wherein was yet the person of Bajazet who before had sustained a great burden Now Bajazet had in his Army a great number of Mercinary Tartars called Destenses with many thousands of other souldiers taken up in the Countries of the poor exiled Mahometan Princes in whose just quarrel and the Greek Emperors Tamerlane had chiefly undertaken that war These Tartarians and other souldiers seeing some their friends and other some their natural and loving Princes in Tamerlanes Army stricken with the terror of disloyalty and abhorring the cruelty of the proud Tyrant in the heat of the battel revolted from Bajazet to their own Princes which much weakened Bajazet's forces who never the less with his own men of war especially the Janizaries and the help of the Christian souldiers brought to his aide from Servia and other places of Europe with great courage maintained the fight But the multitude rather then true valour prevailed for as much as might be done by valiant and couragious men was by the Janizaries the Mameluks and the rest performed both for the preservation of their Prince and for gaining the victory But in the end the horsemen with whom Tamerlane himself was giving a fresh charge and his Avantguard being rallied and joyning with him he with much ado obtained the victory Bajazet himself being wounded when he saw all desperate mounted on horseback thinking to have escaped but falling into Axalla's hands he yielded himself to him supposing him to have been Tamerlane neither did Axalla for a while know him but took him for some great Commander in the Turkes Army Musa sirnamed Zelabi or the Noble one of Bajazet's sons with divers others of his great Captains were there taken also and amongst the rest Georg Despot of Servia who notwithstanding his misfortune had that day by his valour gained the reputation of a great and valiant Captain inso much as Tamerlane in the very heat of the battel marvelled to see him and his Servians and the other Christians that he had brought to the aide of Bajazet to fight so valiantly whereupon turning to some of his Captaines that were neer him he said See how valiantly these Religious fight supposing them by their strange attire to have been some of the Turkes superstitious votaries But the Despot being now taken and afterwards brought to Tamerlane he was by him courteously entertained but withall reproved for that he had assisted Bajazet against him who was come in favour to the Christian Emperor and the other poor oppressed Princes such as the Despot himself was who thereupon boldly answered That indeed it was not according to his profession but according to the prosterity of Bajazet unto whom it seemed that all the world should bend and that he did it for his own safety Whereupon Tamerlane excused him and without any more ado gave him liberty at his own pleasure to depart Bajazet himself being afterwards brought to Tamerlane as a prisoner was by him courteously entertained who never shewed any token of submission at all but according to his proud nature without respect of his present state answered him presumptuously to what ever he demanded of him wherewith Tamerlane being somewhat moved told him that it was in his power to take his life from him whereto he answered no more but Do it for that loss will be my greatest happiness Then Tamerlane demanded of him what made him so proud as to enterprize to bring

for the defence of Alexandria as neerest to the enemy But understanding this news used such diligence that he entred into Caire with fourty thousand horse and sixty thousand foot even as Tamerlanes Army approached to it By this unexpected coming of that Sultan the great City that before was ready to have revolted was again confirmed in his obedience to the great prejudice of Tamerlanes affaires For to remaine long before it was impossible thorow want of victuals for so great an Army in an enemies Country Yet this discouraged not Tamerlane from approaching to it and with all his Army to encamp neer unto the same having caused a great trench to be made for the security of his horsemen and therein to lodge his Army more safely during which time he caused diverse attempts to be made as well to try the enemies confidence as to see how the people of the City especially the slaves which in that populous City are in great numbers were affected towards him who indeed were glad to see the state of his Army and the proud Mameluks still put to the worst but farther stirred not During this siege he thought good one day to draw forth his Armie before the Citie to try whether the enemie had any minde to come to a battel as also to view his own forces and so indeed to seek occasion to fight hoping that if the Sultan should come forth with his Army some revolt might happen at the same time in the Citie as well by the slaves unto whom by secret Spies he had promised liberty as by the Citizens themselves who were much discontented with the insolency of the Mamelukes and to whom Tamerlane by the same Spies had made it known that he came not to hurt them but to deliver them from the tyranny of his and their enemies But standing thus in battel array none stirred out of the Citie neither was there any tumult raised within according as he expected For the Sultan being plentifully provided with all things in that rich Citie resolved to weary out Tamerlane by lying still and not to put all to the hazard of a Battel Tamerlane perceiving his design yet resolved not to depart till he was victorious whereupon he thought fit also to attempt him in his greatest strength and in the heart of his greatest Citie though it could not be done without great hazard such confidence had he in the valour and multitude of his Army Now his purpose was first to take one of the Cities for Caire is divided into three and therein encamping himself by little and little to advance forwards as he could finde opportunity Upon this resolution he commanded a strong assault to be given and having conducted his footmen to the place chosen by him for the onset for the Citie was not walled but onely fortified with ditches and trenches he commanded the Prince of Thanais with fiftie thousand men to begin the assault even in the face of the enemy which he most valiantly performed which occasioned a great and terrible fight Axalla in the mean time deeming as the truth was that the Sultan had drawn the greatest part of his forces to that place fetched a compasse about and in another part of the City with small resistance passed the trenches where he presently left thirty thousand men to fill up the ditches thereby to make way for the Horsemens entrance himself with the rest advancing forwards against twenty thousand sent by the Sultan to oppose his farther passage the Prince of Thanais being at the same time almost beaten back by the Mamelukes But the ditches being presently levelled ten thousand horsemen entred who charged upon the backs of the Mameluks where the Sultan himself was they were likewise seconded by ten thousand more sent in in by Tamerlane himself following after with all his power Hereupon the Sultan retreated into a second strength which he had made in the next Citie This fight endured full seven houres wherein were slain of the Sultans men above sixteen thousand and of Tamerlane's between seven and eight thousand Tamerlane being well contented that he had dislodged his enemy and gained one of the Cities caused a retreat to be sounded hoping the next day to win all the rest as indeed he did For the next morning the Prince of Thanais storming the trenches in one part as Axalla did in an other the Sultan after a great fight finding himself hardly pressed by the obstinate enemy and unable longer to hold out retreated abandoning the Citie and encamping himself along the River Nilus resolving to retire to the Citie of Alexandria his second strength and onely refuge which Tamerlane suspecting followed after him with his Horsemen who onely were in order and some few foot hardly drawn from the Citie which their fellows were in plundering Tamerlane promising them both to regard and reward their good service Against these the Sultan upon a narrow cawse way had opposed twelve or fifteen thousand men to favour his passage who being of his best Souldiers maintained their ground stoutly the place being much for their advantage yet at length their enemies still encreasing and pressing hard upon them they were forced to cast themselves into the great River and made a most honourable retreat every man having his weapon in one hand and swimming with the other hand to the farther banke The Sultan flying with about eighteen thousand Horse the rest being either drowned or dispersed is said to have comforted his flying men by telling them they were not men but gods that had vanquished them Divers of the Mameluks that were taken prisoners being brought before Tamerlane were by him courteously used and asked if they would be content to serve him seeing their Master was fled and gone This they all utterly refused whom notwithstanding for their fidelity Tamerlane set at liberty to go again to their Master being no lesse desirous to be admired by his enemies for his goodnesse and bounty then to be feared for his force and valour The wonderful wealth of this so great and famous a Citie became a prey to his Souldiers who for the space of twentie four houres had the spoil thereof At the end whereof every man was straitly charged by open Proclamation to retire to his quarters Tamerlane would not suffer any of the Citizens to be taken Prisoners and such as were he released and so leaving ten thousand good Souldiers with many others that followed his Camp for the guard of the Citie and taking with him all such persons as he thought might hurt him he caused his Armie to passe over the River and to follow the Sultan to Alexandria that so his victory might be compleated Axalla hasting before with the Avantguard to hinder the Sultan from gathering up his forces together The rest of the Army was conducted by the Prince of Thanais Tamerlane himself with an infinite number of Boats and many Souldiers

that they should receive them into their squadrons and so retire altogether He in the mean time with the other part stood close in a valley neer unto a wood-side wholly unseen where having suffered two thousand of the enemies horse the vant-curriers of the Turks army to pass by him he following them in the taile charged them home the other also which before retired now turned again upon them so that the Turkes seeing themselves thus beset and hardly layed to both before and behind as men discouraged fled but in their flight were most of them slaine the rest of them taken prisoners This was the first encounter between the Turkes and the Parthians All the prisoners taken were by the Prince sent as a present to Tamerlane and amongst the rest the Bassa of Natolia who led those Troops of whom Tamerlane earnestly demanded what caused his Master Bajazet so little to esteem him as to shew so great contempt of his Army Which saith he he shall finde strong enough to abate his pride To this the Bassa answered That his Lord was the Sun upon earth which could not endure any corival And that he rather was astonished to see how he from so far a Country had undertaken so dangerous a journy to hinder the fortune of his Lord in whose favour the heavens as he said did bend themselves to further his greatness and unto whom all the world subjected it self and that he committed great folly in going about to resist the same Unto this proud speech Tamerlane replied That he was sent from Heaven to punish his insolency and to teach him that the proud are hated of God whose promise is to pull down the mighty and to advance the lowly As for thy self said he thou hast already felt though I pitty thy mishap what the valour of my Parthian horse is against thy Turkish and I have already caused thy Master to raise his siege before Constantinople and to look to his affaires here in Asia He also asked him whether his Master did come resolved to give him battel Assure your self said he that there is nothing that he more desireth and would to God that I might acknowledge your greatness in giving me leave to assist my Lord in that battel Good leave have thou said Tamerlane go thy wayes and tell thy Lord that thou hast seen me and that in the battel he shall finde me on horseback there where he shall see a green Ensigne displayed The Bassa thanked him and swore that next unto his Lord he vowed unto him his service And so returning he related unto Bajazet how he had seen Tamerlane and reported to him truly all that he had willed him to say not forgetting above all to praise his courtesie and bounty who besides that he had frankly set him at liberty had also given him a very faire horse well furnished although he well knew that he was to serve against himself To this Bajazet answered no more but that he would shortly make trial of him and that he doubted not but before he had done with him he should make him acknowledge his folly The next day the two Armies drew neer together and encamped within a league the one of the other where all the night long you might have heard such noise of horses which filled the heavens with their neighings and the aire with sounds and every man thought the night long that they might come to the trial of their valours and the gaining of their desires The Scythians a people no less greedy then needy talked of nothing but the spoile the proud Parthians of attaining honour the poor Christians of their deliverance from an insulting adversary all to be gained by the next dayes victory Every man during the night-time speaking according to his humour All which Tamerlane walking privately up and down in the Camp heard and much rejoyced to see the hope which his souldiers had already conceived of the victory and so after the second watch returning into his Pavilion and there casting himself upon a carpet he purposed to sleep a while but his cares not suffering him so to do he then as his manner was called for a book wherein was contained the Lives of his Fathers and Ancestors and of other valiant worthies which he used ordinarily to read in as then also he did not vainly to deceive the time but to make use of it by imitating that which by them was worthily done and declining such dangers as they by their rashness or over-sight fell into After having slumbered a little he commanded Axalla to be sent for to him who presently came accompanied with diverse other great Lords and Captaines of the Army with whom after he had consulted a while about the order of the battel himself presently mounted on horseback and sent each of them to their charge to see their orders put in execution At which very instant he received intelligence that the enemy was marching forwards and come to chuse his ground for the battel whose order of marching Tamerlane was very desirous to see that so he might marshal his own Army accordingly For said he I do not so much trust to the Lions skin wherein I wrap mine arme but that withall I will make use of the Foxes therein to wrap mine head which my grandfather neglected to his overthrow in a battel against the Persians for being in a place of advantage he went out of it to seek his enemy that was lodged strongly contrary to the advice of all his Captaines which proved his ruine Then did he cause three thousand horsemen to advance forward with charge to begin the skirmish himself following after to lodge every part of his forces in such places as he had foreseen to be fittest for his advantage And seeing the Turkish Janizaries marching in a square battel in the middest of the Army and upon the two Fronts two great squadrons of horsemen which seemed to be about thirty thousand and another which advanced before and covered the Battalion of the Janizaries he thought this their order to be very good and hard to be broken and therefore turning himself to Axalla he said I had thought this day to have fought on foot but I see that it behoves me now to fight on horseback to encourage my souldiers to open that great Battalion of the enemies And my will is that my men come forwards to me so soon as may be for I will advance forward with a hundred thousand footmen fifty thousand upon each of my two wings and in the midest of them fourty thousand of my best horsemen And my pleasure is that after I have tryed the force of these men that they come unto my Avantguard of whom I will dispose and fifty thousand horsemen more in three bodies whom thou shalt command which I will assist with eighty thousand horse wherein shall be mine own person having a hundred thousand footmen