Late Middle Ages · South Asia · War
1303
Mongol raid on Delhi repulsed at Siri
1303
Chagatayid horsemen under Targhi besieged Delhi for two months while Sultan Alauddin Khalji crouched behind hastily raised walls. The Mongols withdrew hungry, their supply lines overextended across the arid plains of Rajasthan. The sultan responded by fortifying Siri as his new cantonment and raising taxes to fund a permanent standing army against the steppe threat.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.