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Tumu Crisis

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Tumu Fortress · North of Beijing

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ming emperor captured, massive military defeat by Mongols.

Belligerents2

Ming Dynasty
Oirat Mongols

ON THE MAPMing Dynasty

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Tumu1449

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Tumu Crisis (1449). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/tumu-crisis · Sources & methodology