Major Events

• Mongols first attack on Japan was on 1274
• First the Mongols constructed 300 to 600 vessels and got an army of 40,000 men
• Many of the officers were Mongolian but most of the soldiers were Chinese and Koreans
• Japan could get 10,000 men to fight and they were samurai’s and were outmatched by a lot
• The Mongols went to attacked on 1274 in the autumn. First the Mongols went and took over the islands Tsushima and Ike which are the main islands of Japan.
• There were about 300 residents on the islands and the Mongols slaughtered them and then sailed to the east
• The Mongols reached Hakata Bay the samurais were fighting them here
• To make the war more worst for the Japanese the Mongols used poison tipped arrows and catapult launched explosive shells.
• The mongols fought together in unit instead of one man for himself so it was more difficult for the samurai's to kill the Mongols
• 100 reinforcement samurai fighters came for the Japanese and helped them go back a few miles away from the bay so the injured men can get help
• The Mongols then when back to their ships to go further out to sea but something terrifying happened they ran into a typhoon
• Half of the ship was in water and about 13,000 men had drowned so Kublai Khan and his army had to go back home