che-pee

Updated: July 27, 2025

For a long time the assailants were kept at bay, but one fortress after another fell into their hands, and finally the capture of the Nankow pass by Che-pee, one of Genghis Khan's generals, laid Pekin at their mercy. There is a tradition that the loss of the first line of northern forts was due to a woman.

Thomas Wallace Knox - Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar: Life