Tamerlane wounded in the leg

1362

During a cattle raid in Sistan, the young Timur took the arrow wound that gave him his lifelong limp and Western nickname Tamerlane, from Timur-i lenk, 'Timur the Lame.' His right leg and right hand were permanently damaged. The wound never healed fully. He campaigned on horseback for the next forty years, often in severe pain.