Army of Mongols of the period of conquest of Ancient Russia
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Army of Mongols of the period of conquest of Ancient Russia
19.99 €
In the 13th century, the principalities of ancient Russia and the states of Eastern and Central Europe experienced a stunning onslaught of the Mongol Empire's military machine, literally sweeping away everything in its path. The grandiose in its scale campaign of 1236-1242 (the total forces of Mongols amounted to astronomical 250-260 thousand people) entered the history of wars as the Great Western campaign. The population of the conquered areas hoped to hide behind the walls of the cities, but the Mongols had not only a rich arsenal of technical means for taking fortifications - they had experienced engineering and stone throwing artillery units. The westernmost point of Batyi Khan's campaign in Europe was Poland, Bohemia and the Hungarian Kingdom (it included Hungary, Slovakia and a significant part of the former Yugoslavia), and in 1242 the Mongol army reached the "last sea" - the Adriatic. In 1243 Batyi received in the capital of the Golden Horde the first Russian princes, who arrived with an expression of submission. On the pages of this book, a well-known specialist in the military history of the Mongol Empire gives a broad picture of the forces and capabilities with which the conquerors established political domination over the Russian principalities, which lasted from the middle of the 13th to the 15th century, and a large part of Eastern Europe. For the first time in the historical literature, based solely on the sources of the Mongol Empire (internal documents of the Mongol power, its interstate acts, official and unofficial reports, eyewitness accounts of those who visited Mongolia and Mongolian stakes), the organization, armament, tactical techniques, and combat application of the army of Genghis Khan's empire and its first successors are shown.
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