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The eastern approaches of thirteenth-century Baghdad in February: high mudbrick and fired-brick city walls with a wide dry ditch, a broken tower shedding rubble into it, a plain of churned winter mud outside, siege engines and earth ramps standing idle, a grey cold sky. the procession comes out through the gate opening in the same wall the broken tower belongs to. the procession, the mud plain and the mounted line are all on the same continuous ground across open ground. the siege engines stand on ramps raised against that same ditch and wall. The wall stands about five times the height of the men walking out beneath it; the procession is about a hundred people, a thin thread against the gate. It is 10 February 1258, Baghdad: caliphal officials in long belted robes of dark wool and figured silk with wound turbans; Mongol riders in laced lamellar armour, fur-edged conical helmets and long coats over felt boots; mudbrick and fired brick, timber, laced iron and rawhide lamellae, wool, silk, hemp rope; traction and counterweight siege engines of lashed timber, composite bows, stirruped saddles, earth ramps and hurdles.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "A surrender walked out on foot across open mud. 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