High Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1221
Genghis Khan defeats Jalal al-Din at the Indus
1221
The last Khwarazmian prince, cornered on the Indus's banks, fought a desperate battle and then spurred his horse over a cliff into the river. Genghis reportedly ordered his archers to hold fire and watched the prince swim to the far shore, admiring his nerve. Jalal al-Din would resurface in Iran and Azerbaijan, cobbling together a second empire before the Mongols returned to finish him.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.