Major conflict1279
Battle of Yamen
Yamen (Yashan) · Pearl River Delta · Guangdong
Estimated casualties
100Ksingle estimate · no range published
Traditional accounts report over 100,000 dead, including officials and women who drowned. This is a chronicle figure and likely imprecise.
SOURCEWikipedia / traditional Chinese accounts
Naval battle of 19 March 1279 marking the last stand of the Southern Song; the Yuan fleet destroyed the chained-together Song armada, and with the drowning of the boy-emperor Zhao Bing the Song dynasty was extinguished.
Belligerents2
- Yuan dynasty (Mongols)
- Southern Song dynasty
ON THE MAPSouthern Song Dynasty
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Yamen
- Naval History Magazine (USNI), 'A Clash of Fleets, A Dynasty's End'
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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