Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The second engagement between the Timurids and the Uzbeks at Samarkand took place in early 1501 C.E. When Babur captured the city in 1497, he found it to have been reduced to a wretched condition in so much that instead of any supplies drawn from the fertile fields around it, it was now absolutely necessary for the government to furnish the inhabitants with seed corn to sow their grounds and with other supplies to enable them to subsist till the ensuing harvest. To levy contributions for his army from such a country was quite impossible. His soldiers were consequently exposed to much distress and he possessed no adequate means of satisfying their wants. The men began to drop off and return home. The example set by the soldiers was soon followed even by the leaders. All his Mughal horse deserted and in the end Sultan Ahmed Tambol, a Mughal nobleman of the first rank in Andijan forsook him like the rest and returned home.Ahmed Tambol rebelled and robbed took over his Kingdom of Fergana supporting Babur’s brother Jahangir Mirza as the new King and joined by Uzun Hasan. The rebels lay siege to Andijan. As Babur was marching to recover his lost Kingdom, his troops deserted him in Samarkand, leaving him with neither Samarkand nor Fergana. While in 1500 he planned to retake Samarkand he learnt that the Khan of the Uzbeks, Muhammad Shaybani, was headed towards the city.. }
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- Siege_of_Samarkand_(1501) abstract "The second engagement between the Timurids and the Uzbeks at Samarkand took place in early 1501 C.E. When Babur captured the city in 1497, he found it to have been reduced to a wretched condition in so much that instead of any supplies drawn from the fertile fields around it, it was now absolutely necessary for the government to furnish the inhabitants with seed corn to sow their grounds and with other supplies to enable them to subsist till the ensuing harvest. To levy contributions for his army from such a country was quite impossible. His soldiers were consequently exposed to much distress and he possessed no adequate means of satisfying their wants. The men began to drop off and return home. The example set by the soldiers was soon followed even by the leaders. All his Mughal horse deserted and in the end Sultan Ahmed Tambol, a Mughal nobleman of the first rank in Andijan forsook him like the rest and returned home.Ahmed Tambol rebelled and robbed took over his Kingdom of Fergana supporting Babur’s brother Jahangir Mirza as the new King and joined by Uzun Hasan. The rebels lay siege to Andijan. As Babur was marching to recover his lost Kingdom, his troops deserted him in Samarkand, leaving him with neither Samarkand nor Fergana. While in 1500 he planned to retake Samarkand he learnt that the Khan of the Uzbeks, Muhammad Shaybani, was headed towards the city.".