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TIL the "Kamikaze of 1274 and 1281" otherwise known as "The Divine Wind", is massively attributed to the ending of the Mongol invasions. Along with the Mamluks stopping their western expansion, The divine wind typhoons blew through some hundreds of ships, devastating a force of 140,000 Mongols.

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