World-changing938 CE

Battle of Bạch Đằng (938)

Bạch Đằng River · Hạ Long Bay

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Ngô Quyền's iron-stake trap on the Bạch Đằng River destroyed the Southern Han fleet, ending a millennium of Chinese rule in Vietnam.

Belligerents2

  • Tĩnh Hải quân
  • Southern Han

Sources

  1. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Bạch Đằng (938) (938 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-bach-ang-938 · Sources & methodology