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Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia 500 BC to 1700 AD (New

In the end Zuo was victorious in the "great policy debate" and won permission to launch a very expensive campaign to crush Ya`qub Beg's emirate and reconquer Xinjiang for the Qing, which he did by 1877.

Genghis Khan was the most effective military leader in history. He conquered more than twice as much land as anyone else, and he did it in a series of astonishing campaigns. He subdued some twelve million square miles—an area roughly the size of Africa,