What is Siege of Baghdad (1258)?
{{Infobox military conflict | partof = The [[Mongol invasions]] | image = Bagdad1258.jpg | caption = Hulagu's army conducting a siege on Baghdad walls. | date = January 29 – February 10, 1258 | place = [[Baghdad]], modern-day [[Iraq]] | result = Decisive Mongol victory | combatant1 = [[Mongol Empire]] | combatant2 = [[Abbasid Caliphate]] | commander1 = [[Hulagu Khan]]<br />[[Guo Kan]]<br />[[Baiju]]<br />[[Kitbuga]]<br />[[Koke Ilge]]<br />[[David VII ulu]] | commander2 = Caliph [[Al-Musta'sim]]{{POW}}<br />[[Mujaheduddin]]<br />[[Sulaiman Shah]]{{POW}}<br />[[Qarasunqur]]. | strength1 = 120,000<ref name=Venegoni>L. Venegoni (2003). [http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/venegoni.html Hülägü's Campaign in the West - (1256-1260)], ''Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series I'', Webfestschrift Marshak 2003. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513010041/http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/venegoni.html |date=2019-05-13 }}</ref>-150,000<ref name=Geographic/> total<br />(60,000 [[Georgians|Georgian]] [[infantry]],<br />12,000 Armenian [[cavalry]],<ref name=Venegoni/><br />[[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[artillery|bombardiers]],<ref name=Geographic/><br />and [[Mongols|Mongol]], [[Turkic people|Turkic]], [[Persian people|Persian]] and [[Georgians|Georgian]] soldiers) | strength2 = 50,000 | casualties1 = Low | casualties2 = 50,000 soldiers,<br />90,000-100,000 civilians {{Fact|date=November 2009}} | conflict = Battle of Baghdad (1258) }} The '''Battle of Baghdad''' in 1258 was a victory for the [[Mongol]] leader [[Hulagu Khan]], a grandson of [[Genghis Khan]]. [[Baghdad]] was captured, sacked, and over time burned. [[Baghdad]] was the [[Capital (city)|capital]] of the [[Abbasid Empire]].<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=Six Essays from the Book of Commentaries on Euclid |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7465 |publisher=[[World Digital Library]]|access-date=21 March 2013}}</ref> This was an [[Islamic]] [[empire]] in what is now [[Iraq]]. The Abbasid [[caliph]]<nowi