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People: Nian Gengyao
Topic: Siritsa River, Battle of the
Location: Zhuozhou Hebei (Hopeh) China

Siritsa River, Battle of the

Years: 1501 - 1501

The Battle of the Siritsa River (also Seritsa) takes place on August 27, 1501, between the forces of the Livonian Order under Grand Master Wolter von Plettenberg on the one side and the forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Pskov Republic on the other.

The Russian forces are soundly defeated.

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

—Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History (1906)