Song loyalists flee south after Lin'an's fall
1272
As Mongol armies closed in on the Song heartland, tens of thousands of loyalist officials, soldiers, and civilians fled southward into Fujian and Guangdong, carrying the child emperor and the imperial seals. The remnant court would hold out for three more years on the South China Sea before its final destruction at Yamen.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.