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Library of universal knowledge Volume 14; A reprint of the last (1880) Edinburgh and London edition of Chambers's encyclopaedia, with copious additions by American authors - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...of Florida, near St. Augustine. Missionaries were sent to them by the Franciscans as early as 1592, and continued their labors among them until'Carolina and Georgia made war upon the tribe, almost annihilating them, the few who survived joining other tribes. A catechism, grammar, and church manual, in their language, was printed in Mexico about 1612, written by father Francisco Parejo. They were generally a peaceful tribe, and became somewhat civilized. TIMUE, called also Timur-beg and Timur-leng, from his lameness, and vulgarly known among western writers as Tamerlane, was the second of the great conquerors whom Central Asia sent forth in the middle ages, and was b. at Sebz, 40 m. from Samarkand, April 8, 1336. His biographers make him the fifth in descent from Karatch&r Nuyan, the relative and counselor of Genghis Khan (q.v.), and the ninth from Tflmna Khan, the direct ancestor in the male line of his renowned predecessor. The royal line of Jagatai (see Turkistan) had so utterly degenerated that the real power was in the hands of a number of independent chiefs of Mongol blood, each of whom, choosing a prominent city of the kingdom, there set up his standard and lorded it over the surrounding district. One of these chiefs, Hadji Berlas, the uncle of Timur, had established himself at Kesh, and here the future conqueror passed the first 24 years of his life in peaceful obscurity, devoting himself to the national amusements of hunting and equestrianism. But a formidable inroad (1360) of the Kalmucks of Jettah, who speedily subjugated Turkestan, expelling those chiefs who refused submission, effectually called forth Timur's hitherto untried energies. Declining to accompany his uncle in his flight, he boldly advanced with a small retinue to meet the invader...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235903672
- ISBN 13 9781235903670
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages778
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