ginghis

Updated: June 28, 2025

The Don Cossacks destroy the last remnant of the mighty Mongol dynasty, a fragment flung off from the convulsion of the thirteenth century, ruled by a descendant of Ginghis. The government of the Czars astutely annexes the fruits of Cossack valour, but in the administration of its first remarkable conquest the irremediable defect of the Slavonic race declares itself.

J. A. (John Adam) Cramb - The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain: Nineteenth Century Europe

If it be not for this cause, it is for a cause so false to all the past, from Agincourt to Balaklava, that it has but to be named to carry with it its own refutation. There is a kind of tragic elevation in the very horror of the march of Attila, of Ginghis Khan, or of Timour.

J. A. (John Adam) Cramb - The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain: Nineteenth Century Europe