Timrod
HENRY, an American an poet; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 8, 1829. His only volume of "Poems" was published in 1860; reprinted and edited with memoir by Paul H. Hayne, 1873.
He died in Columbia, S. C., Oct. 6, TIMUR (tē-mör'), called also TIMUR BEG and TIMUR LENK (that is, Timur the Lame), and, by corruption, TAMERLANE, gol or Tartar race; born in the territory of Kesh, near Samarcand, in 1336. His ancestors were chiefs of the district, and Timur by his energy and abilities raised himself to be ruler of all Turkestan (1370). By degrees he conquered Persia and the whole of Central Asia, and extended his power from the great wall of China to Moscow. He invaded India (1398), which he conquered from the Indus to the mouths of the Ganges, massacring, it is said, on one occasion 100,- 000 prisoners. On his way from India to meet the forces of Bajazet, the Turkish sultan, he subjugated Bagdad, plundered Aleppo, burned down the greater part of Damascus, and wrested Syria from the Mamelukes, after which he overran Asia Minor with an immense army. Bajazet's army was completely defeated on the plain of Ancyra (Antaken prisoner. The conquests of the Tartar now extended from the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf, and from the Ganges to the Grecian Archipelago. He was making mighty preparations for an invasion of China when death arrested his progress at his camp at Otrar, beyond the Sir-Daria, in 1405, and his empire immediately fell to pieces. He is the reputed author of the "Institutions of Timur" and the "Autobiography of Timur," both translated into English. He is the hero of Marlowe's "Tamburlaine."