#mongol warriors

[pulpsandcomics2]

Mongol Warriors

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"NO ARMY HAS EVER PROVOKED SUCH JUSTIFIABLE TERROR AND LOATHING IN ITS VICTIMS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on illustrations of the Mongol Army and the warrior culture that encapsulated the very nature of their empire, from the book "The Mongols" (1980), written by George Turnbull and illustrated by Angus McBride. Part of Osprey Publishing's "Men-At-Arms" Series, 105.

DESCRIPTION: "The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever provoked such justifiable terror and loathing in its victims, or slaughtered so many of its vanquished.

What other army in history has marched on Russia in the winter and survived, let alone won victories? The stories of these and many other amazing feats of this "barbarian" people are here brought vividly to life by Stephen Turnbull, from the birth of Genghis Khan in the wind-swept steppes of Mongolia, through the conquest of China and beyond."

-- OSPREY PUBLISHING, "The Mongols" (published 1980, "Men-At Arms" Series, 105)

Source: http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2012/02/angus-mcbride-los-mongoles.html.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THEY SWEPT THROUGH THE CITY LIKE HUNGRY FALCONS ATTACKING A FLIGHT OF DOVES, OR LIKE RAGING WOLVES ATTACKING SHEEP..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Ilkhanate Mongols laying their infamous siege upon ancient Baghdad, c. 1258 A.D. Artwork by the late, great Angus McBride (1931-2007), another legend lost.

"They swept through the city like hungry falcons attacking a flight of doves, or like raging wolves attacking sheep, with loose reins and shameless faces, murdering and spreading terror... beds and cushions made of gold and encrusted with jewels were cut to pieces with knives and torn to shreds. Those hiding behind the veils of the great Harem were dragged...through the streets and alleys, each of them becoming a plaything... as the population died at the hands of the invaders."

-- WASSAF (14th-century Persian historian of the Ilkhanate)

R.I.P. Islamic Golden Age [of Islam], slain forevermore in 1258 at the hands of the Mongol Empire during the Siege of Baghdad

Source: https://war-maps.com/warmap/battles-of-the-crusades/event/siege-of-aleppo-1260.

[bkcreativity-blog]

“According to Marco Polo, Mongol warriors of the thirteenth century supposedly rode for ten days at a time without lightning a fire. The rider’s food was the raw blood of their horses, obtained by piercing a vein. The cavalry saved time by riding without cooking, and they avoided producing the smoke that might reveal their position to hostile forces. The men did not like the liquid diet and looked forward to a cooked meal when speed was not essential, but there is no suggestion that they suffered from it.”

Catching Fire, How cooking made us human

[beenishkhan-blog]

According to Marco Polo, Mongol warriors of the thirteenth century supposedly rode for ten days at a time without lightning a fire. The rider's food was the raw blood of their horses, obtained by piercing a vein. The cavalry saved time by riding without cooking, and they avoided producing the smoke that might reveal their position to hostile forces. The men did not like the liquid diet and looked forward to a cooked meal when speed was not essential, but there is no suggestion that they suffered from it.

Catching Fire, How cooking made us human