Late Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1398
Timur sacks Delhi
December 1398
The Tamerlane crossed the Indus with ninety thousand cavalry, defeated Sultan Mahmud Tughluq at the gates of Delhi, and let his men loot the city for fifteen days. A hundred thousand Hindu prisoners were massacred outside the walls beforehand. Delhi did not recover for a century. The Sultanate's heartland was a corpse.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.