Battle of Ankara

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle between Ottoman and Timurid Empires. Result: Ottoman defeat.

Tamerlane deployed upward of 140,000 men, mainly cavalry, plus thirty-two war elephants. He faced Sultan Bayezid I, whose Ottomans numbered about 85,000 and included elite Janissaries as well as other Turkish infantry and numerous horsemen. Many of the latter were recently conquered Turcomans or Tatars, supported by a hard core of Ottoman sipahi heavy cavalry. There was even a troop of Serbian knights, fulfilling their obligations as vassals of...

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