Tamerlane's "Tour" of India and "Curse'

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Tamerlane(1336-1405)

Tartar Conqueror

For no apparent reason other than a love of fighting and a desire to

increase his royal coffers, Tamerlane invaded India in 1398. His army

captured Delhi and remained only long enough to massacre its

inhabitants and destroy what they did not remove to Samarkand.

Destruction was so complete that it took more than a century for Delhi

to return to its preinvasion stature. Tamerlane did not limit his

victims to civilians. After the Battle of Panipat on December 17,

1398, Tamerlane put one hundred thousand captured Indian soldiers to

the sword.

http://www.carpenoctem.tv/military/tamerlane.html

On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in the Samarkand crypt

opened the sarcophagus to study the body and found the inscription:

"Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than

I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Five weeks after the great

Emir was reinterred in 1942, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/travel/magazine/0,9754,108844,00.html