- Battle of the Sit River
Infobox Military Conflict
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conflict=Battle of the Sit River
partof=Mongol invasion of Rus
date=March 4 ,1238
place=Modern dayYaroslavl Oblast
result=Mongol victory
combatant1=Mongols
combatant2=Vladimir-Suzdal
commander1=Batu Khan
commander2=George II †
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=
casualties2=Entire Force
The Battle of theSit River was fought in the northern part of the present-dayYaroslavl Oblast ofRussia onMarch 4 ,1238 between the Mongol Hordes ofBatu Khan and the Rus' people under Grand PrinceYuri II ofVladimir-Suzdal during theMongol invasion of Rus . After the Mongols sacked his capital ofVladimir , Yuri fled across theVolga northward, toYaroslavl , where he hastily mustered an army. He and his brothers then turned back toward Vladimir in hopes of relieving the city before the Mongols took it, but they were too late. Yuri sent out a force of 3,000 men under Dorozh to scout out where the Mongols were; whereupon Dorozh returned saying that Yuri and his force was already surrounded. As he tried to muster his forces, he was attacked by the Mongol force underBurundai and fled but was overtaken on the Sit River and died there along with his nephew, Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl. [Robert Michell and Neville Forbes, eds. "The Chronicle of Novgorod" (London: Camden Society, 1914), 83; Janet Martin, "Medieval Russia 980-1584" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 138-139.] The battle marked the end of unified resistance to the Mongols and inaugurated two centuries of the Mongol domination of Rus.----
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