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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Peking (Tartar Invasion of China).

This city was besieged by the Tartars, under Genghiz Khan, in 1210, and after a long and obstinate[obstinate] defence, which so exhausted the besiegers that Genghiz Khan is said to have decimated his men in order to feed the rest, the city was taken by stratagem.