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| | The Mongols in the West |
 | | The insignificant khans who followed on Toktamish - we barely know their names - could not establish a central authority strong enough either to set a course of policy or to command an army capable of its execution. |
 | | Until his death in 1419, only Edigu represented a force to be reckoned with by the Russians, Lithuanians, or Poles; and his actions were mostly in response to events and reveal no central concept. |
 | | By that time Tatar units were quite often mere mercenary forces in the service of alien rulers who knew, or pretended to know, the aims they were pursuing. |
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