The forces of Qutb-ud-din Aibak finally advance on Delhi, capturing it soon after the Battle of Chandwar(modern Firozabad), on the Jumna River close to Agra, a surprise attack on Raja Jaichand of Kannauj.
"[the character] Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree."