Baber was the founder of the Mogul dynasty which ruled northern India for 300 years. He was born in 1483 and died in 1530. He was a grandson of the great Tartar prince Timur or Tamerlane, and was sovereign of Kabul. He several times invaded Hindustan, and in 1525 finally overthrew and killed Sultan Ibrahim, the last Hindu emperor of the Patan or Afghan race. He made many improvements, social and political, in his empire, and left a valuable autobiography. Research Baber
Baha'dur Shah was the last of the Grand Moguls of India. A descendant of Tamerlane, in 1857, during the Indian mutiny, the Muslims who wished to restore the empire of the Moguls placed him, then a very old man, at the head of the movement in Delhi, but the city was soon retaken by the British, and the emperor was banished to Rangoon, where he died in 1862. Research Baha'dur Shah
Bajazet I (Bayasid I) was a Turkish emperor. In 1389, having strangled his brother Jacob, succeeded his father Murad or Amurath, who fell in the battle of Cassova against the Serbians. From the rapidity of his conquests he received the name of Ilderim, the Lightning. In three years he subjected Bulgaria, part of Serbia, Macedonia, Thessaly, and the states of Asia Minor, and besiegedConstantinople (Istanbul) for ten years, defeating Sigismund and the allied Hungarians, Poles, and French, in 1395. The attack of Timur (Tamerlane) on Natolia, in 1400, saved the Greek Empire, Bajazet being defeated and taken prisoner by him near Ancyra, Galatia, 1402. The story of his being carried about in a cage by Timur is improbable; but Bajazet died in 1409, in Timur's camp, in Caramania. His successor was Soilman I. Research Bajazet I
Tamerlane or Tamburlaine or Timur was a Tartarchieftain and a King of Samarkland. He was born in 1336 of noble family near Samarkand and died in 1405. In 1358 he began his military career by invading Khorassan. He became a powerful chieftain and in 1369 was crowned king of Samarkand. After being crowned king he embarked upon a series of wars and invasions, reaching the Caspian Sea, subduing most of Persia and routing the Golden Horde. In 1398 he invaded India and sacked Delhi, carrying back to Samarkand enormous booty. He was victorious against the Turks and Egyptians, captured Damascus and Aleppo and defeated and captured Bayazid I in 1402. He died while preparing an invasion of China. Research Tamerlane
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