I’d give the credit to Subutai. Had Ögedei Khan not died when he died, Subutai would have turned on teh Holy roman Empire, and conquered everything up the English Channel.
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“I’d give the credit to Subutai. Had Ögedei Khan not died when he died, Subutai would have turned on teh Holy roman Empire, and conquered everything up the English Channel.”
Maybe. Fighting through German and French forests is harder than on the eastern plains. The Magyars found out about that. But I would credit God rather than Subutai. He decides when to take Mongol khans out of the picture.
He was, IMHO, the greatest general in history. Bar none.