Mongol Empire · BATTLE SITE ·
Siege of Zhongdu (1215)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Fall of Zhongdu”
May 1215 — The Jin capital (under modern Beijing) starves and falls; a Khwarazmian envoy reports the ground greasy with human fat. Captured Khitan and Chinese clerks and engineers now serve the khan — the siege problem is solved by hiring the besieged.
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- Battle site
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- Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (chapter 3 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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