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Battle of dalan balzhut

In 1185 he was elected khan (leader) of the Borjigid clan. He divided his fighting forces into archers on horseback and heavy cavalry. Under his leadership an elite squad was formed that was also split into two divisions. In 1186 he became rivals with his boyhood blood-brother (‘Anda’) Jumukha ➚ as to who should become overall Mongol khan. This culminated in the battle at Dalan Balzhut (‘Seventy marshes’) in 1187. Jumukha had gathered a force of 30,000 horsemen from 16 tribes and Temujin was convincingly defeated and he fled into the northern snows to be lost in obscurity.