Caffa was a city in the Crimea. In 1343, it was besieged by Mongol forces under Jani Beg. In the course of the siege, the Mongol army was struck by the bubonic plague and began to suffer significant losses. Jani Beg responded by ordering the infected bodies of his own dead soldiers be shot by catapult over the city walls into Caffa. This primitive u…
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