THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 3
September 3 in history
What happened on September 3: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1260 and 1939, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Ain Jalut
3 Sep 1260 — At the Spring of Goliath, the Mamluks of Egypt — slave-soldiers raised from the same steppe peoples — spring a feigned retreat on the Mongols themselves. Kitbuqa’s army is destroyed. It is the empire’s first defeat that is never avenged: the tide has found its western shore.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE MONGOL EMPIRE MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
— Linlithgow declares war for India
3 Sep 1939 — Viceroy Linlithgow declares war for 400 million Indians without consulting a single elected Indian. Constitutionally correct, politically fatal: the Congress ministries resign within weeks, and the League fills the vacated ground.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
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