Mongol invasion of Java ends in fiasco

1293

A Yuan expedition of twenty thousand men landed on Java at the invitation of Raden Wijaya, who was fighting a local rival. Once the rival was crushed, Wijaya turned on his Mongol allies and drove them to their ships. They sailed home with only their dignity dented. The fiasco marked the farthest reach of Mongol military power and the last attempt to extend the Yuan empire by sea.