Greetings fellow time travelers, as always it's lovely to have you with me for this journey through time and space.

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next stop on my love letter to the world. Record, microphone, action.

The tiger and his army are in India and on the prowl, standing in their way are 100,000 well-trained warriors

and 1,000 war elephants, armoured, magnificent and ready.

The attackers are a smaller force,

but they're armed with a deadly secret weapon,

never before used on the Indian subcontinent.

As the larger army advances, cannon are uncovered and open fire. The effect

is dramatic and deadly and a cornerstone of the Islamic Mughal Empire is laid.

Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of eliminating the future.

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Hi Neil, in last week's episode we travelled with you to England in the 1530s to meet the

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