Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Indus, The (Tartar Invasion of Kharismia).

Fought A.D.[A.D.] 1221, between 300,000 Tartars, under Genghis Khan, and the army of Jellalladin, Sultan of Kharismia, 30,000 strong. Jellalladin fought with his back to the river, and after an obstinate conflict, in which he inflicted heavy loss on his assailants, was driven across the Indus, having lost 19,000 men killed and drowned. The Tartars lost 20,000.