Siege that Caused the Black Death - Caffa 1345-1347 SHORT

The Siege of Caffa was a siege of the Genoese port town of Caffa by a large Crimean Tatar army under the Golden Horde, led by their Khan Jani Beg. The Mongol army threw the bodies of Mongol warriors who had died of plague over the walls of the besieged city, which is considered as one of the earliest examples of Biological warfare.

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[napoleonibonaparte]

That’s a siege an elf could witness.

Context: original title says “1345-1947”.

[ciuyr]

Caesar would double circumvallate the city; while diplomatically making Genoa & Venice fight each others navies.

[alexanderrahl]

Jani Beg launched plague infested corpses over the walls, the disease was carried by the Genoese ships back to Europe, kicking off the Black Death.
It is for this reason that Jani Beg owns the distinguished and legendary title of "master slayer" for his impressive K/D of 200+ million to 1. Lol

[HomemdaFaina]

Jani Beg also unknowingly killed more europeans than all other mongols put together, given his siege of caffa led to the ships returning to italy carrying the black death.

[cebonvieuxjack]

"what a standard and common siege for the era ! surely nothing out of this encounter will have any lasting repercussions on Europe for the next century !"

[evilemperorzurg]

The mongols would have conquered the entire world if they had learned how to ride seahorses.

[loods]

Moral of the story:

Don't fuck with the Italians when there's business involved

[eggtarts]

The Golden Horde: "I want a navy."
The Genoese: "I'm about to end this horde's whole career"

[giorgiociaravolol]

The italian city states used their strong TW Medieval 2 militias against the mongols. That's why they won.

[NickAndriadze]

Argument to be made that this random khan of the golden horde unknowingly accumulated the highest kill count in human history.

[joostvanweerden]

Biological warefare must not be very effective if it made this siege last 600 years. (Like it says in the title)

[gregorjerman]

Jani Beg: My Ships Attack!
Italians: Uno reverse card😂
Jani Beg: It wasn't my fleet you should be afraid of 😂😅😅.

[silentbyte]

The video doesn't mention anything about biological warfare though...

[Shedgaming_k]

Anyone else love the glass breaking sound when the different coloured rectangles smash into each other 😂

[connormclernon]

One of the most successful examples of biological warfare in history.

[syedzameer]

when you realize that during this battle mongols actually perished 25% of European population with just one hit 😮

[FallschrimjagerSS]

Please share more little-known navies throughout world history i find it fascinating to say the least

[rezzoc]

The Genoese might have come second to the Venetians (sure) but they were still first at sea

[franciscovelasco]

They did an exclusive patreon/youtube member video debunking myths. There is one myth related to this siege.

[aetius]

Jani beg said either the genoese pay the jaziya or he make them leave. He suceeded in that. He killed 60 million people in the process. That would make genghis khan proud of his descendant.