Sack of Baghdad

The Sack of Baghdad was the Mongol Empire's destruction of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad following a siege conducted by Hülegü Khan on his march to Masyaf.Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel – Chapter 76
After Hülegü took the Assassins' citadel of Alamut,Assassin's Creed: Memories – Hülegü Khan (memory)Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel – Chapter 54 he continued with his westward, attacking other citadels throughout the Levant in retribution for his grandfather Genghis Khan's murder in 1227 at the hands of the Levantine Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad and the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal,Assassin's Creed: Reflections – Issue #002 as well as for an attempt on his own life.Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia After a two-week siege, the Mongols destroyed Baghdad,Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Database: Gates of Baghdad burning its libraries and the House of Wisdom and massacring most of its population, leaving behind only the "young and malleable".
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel 
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage 
==References==
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Category:Sieges