Significant1597
Battle of Chilcheollyang
Chilcheollyang Strait · near Geoje Island · southern Korea
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Night battle of 28 August 1597 in which a Japanese fleet destroyed nearly the entire Joseon navy under Won Gyun, who had replaced the disgraced Yi Sun-sin. It was Korea's only major naval defeat of the war.
Belligerents2
- Joseon (Korea)
- Japan (Toyotomi)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Chilcheollyang
- Annals of the Joseon Dynasty
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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