Mongol Empire · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Diaoyu Fortress (1259)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Diaoyu fortress”
Aug 1259 — Möngke, Great Khan, dies of dysentery or wounds beneath a Song mountain fort his cavalry cannot touch. Every front in the empire stops: Hülegü turns back from Syria with most of his army, and the succession war that follows breaks the empire into four.
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- Battle site
- Chapter
- Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty (chapter 10 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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