"Just as suffocating smoke precedes a fire, the Mongol cavalry was preceded by a suffocating, exhausting terror, the results of which were always fruitful," he wrote.
"Tan asfixiante fume precede a un lume, a cabalaría mongola era precedida dun terror asfixiante, asulagador, cuxos resultados eran sempre frutíferos," escribiu o historiador.