commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Tolui

son of Genghis Khan and regent of the Mongol Empire (c.1191 – 1232)

Tolui is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1220 and 1232: 5 sieges across 5 present-day countries, most in Uzbekistan (1), Iran (1), Afghanistan (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 6,003 km apart end to end, 1,501 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Mongol invasion of Khwarazmian Empire and Eastern Iran (4), Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (1).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
January 1220	Siege of Bukhara (1220)	Bukhara, Uzbekistan		Mongol victory
October 1220	Siege of Nishapur	Nishapur, Iran	632 km SW	Mongol victory
1221	Siege of Herat	Herat, Afghanistan	373 km SE	Mongol victory
March 1221	Siege of Merv	Merv, Turkmenistan	370 km N	Mongol victory
1232	Siege of Kaifeng (1232)	Kaifeng, People's Republic of China	4,628 km E	Mongol victory; Emperor Aizong flees to Caizhou

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.