My son, Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff, ever vigilant, informs me that it was the death of Genghis Khan's son Ogedai, not the death of Genghis himself, that resulted in the Mongol armies turning back from the gates of Vienna to return for the Great Kuraltai to select a new Khan.
mea culpa.
Duly noted and preserved in my corregidor.
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