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Early in the spring of the year 1238, with an army, say the ancient annalists, "as innumerable as locusts," he crossed the Volga, and threading many almost impenetrable forests, after a march, in a north-west direction, of about four hundred miles, entered the province of Rezdan just south of Souzdal.
Bati, at the head of his terrible army, continued his march through the populous province of Rezdan, burning every dwelling and endeavoring, with indiscriminate massacre, to exterminate the inhabitants. City after city fell before them until they approached the capital. This they besieged, first surrounding it with palisades that it might not be possible for any of the inhabitants to escape.
Here the tempest of battle raged for a few days, and then Moscow followed in the footsteps of Rezdan. From 1238 to 1304. Retreat of Georges II. Desolating March of the Tartars. Capture of Vladimir. Fall of Moscow. Utter Defeat of Georges. Conflict at Torjek. March of the Tartars Toward the South. Subjugation of the Polovtsi. Capture of Kief. Humiliation of Yaroslaf.
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