Jebe

Timeline

1. 1221Eastern Persia to the Indus River basin · Indus River basinIn 1221 Jebe and Subutai divided their forces to pursue the last Khwarazmshah Jalal al-Din westward, advancing from Khorasan, crossing the Hindu Kush, and pursuing him to the north bank of the Indus River. Though they failed to capture the shah alive, they annihilated large numbers of his remnants, fulfilling Genghis Khan's strategic order to "pursue and destroy the survivors."
2. 1222–1223Kalka River (Kalmius River) · Southern frontier of the Rus principalitiesOn their northward return in 1222–1223, Jebe and Subutai first defeated the Kipchaks, then lured the allied forces of the Rus principalities into a decisive battle at the Kalka River. In May 1223 the Mongol army won a victory against superior numbers, almost annihilating the allied forces; Jebe then continued eastward with Subutai and reported the results to Genghis Khan. This battle was a landmark victory for the Mongols' entry into Eastern Europe.
3. 1223On the eastward return route (Central Asian steppe) · Steppe zoneAfter the great victory at the Kalka River in 1223, Jebe and Subutai led their forces eastward, and Jebe died of illness en route. His western campaign exploits were recorded by Genghis Khan, and later generations, together with Subutai, regarded him as a model of Mongol long-range mobile warfare; his death in 1223 brought his military career of the 1220s to an end before 1230.