Early on September 11, Agha Mohammad Khan…
September 1795 CE
Amid an artillery duel and a fierce cavalry charge, the Persians manage to cross the Kura River and outflank the decimated Georgian army.
Heraclius II attempts to mount a counterattack, but he has to retreat to the last available positions in the outskirts of Tbilisi.
By nightfall, the Georgian forces have been exhausted and almost completely destroyed.
The last surviving Georgian artillery briefly holds the advancing Persians to allow Heraclius II and his retinue of some one hundred and fifty men to escape through the city to the mountains.
The fighting continues in the streets of Tbilisi and at the fortress of Narikala.
In a few hours, Agha Mohammad Khan is in full control of the Georgian capital, which is completely sacked and its population massacred.
The Persian army marches back laden with spoil and carrying off some fifteen thousand captives.
The Georgians have lost four thousand men in the battle, the Iranians thirteen thousand; a third of their total force.
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