Editing Sack of Baghdad

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The '''sack of Baghdad''', also called the '''siege of Baghdad''',<ref name = "Wikipedia">{{WP|Siege of Baghdad (1258)}}</ref> was a [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] led siege followed by the destruction of the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] capital of [[Baghdad]] as part of [[Hülegü Khan]]'s advance towards [[Masyaf]].<ref name = "Revelations 76">[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' (novel)]] – Chapter 76</ref>

After Hülegü took the [[Assassins|Assassin]] fortress of [[Alamut]],<ref name="ACM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]'' – [[Hülegü Khan (memory)]]</ref><ref name = "Revelations 54">''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' (novel) – Chapter 54</ref> he continued with his cammpaign westward, attacking other fortresses throughout the [[Levant]], in vengeance of [[Genghis Khan]]'s murder at the hands of the [[Levantine Assassins|Levantine Assassin]] [[Darim Ibn-La'Ahad]] and the [[Mongolian Assassins|Mongolian Assassin]] [[Qulan Gal]], as well as an attempt on his own life.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> After 13 days of besieging the city,<ref name = "Wikipedia"/> the Mongols destroyed Baghdad, burning its libraries, the [[House of Wisdom]], and killing most of its population, leaving behind only the "young and malleable".<ref name = "Revelations 76"/>

==Appearances==
*[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' (novel)]] {{mo}}

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