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The Battle of Bạch Đằng was a decisive naval battle during the third Mongol invasion of Vietnam between Đại Việt commanded by Commander-in-Chief Prince Trần Quốc Tuấn (Prince Hưng Đạo), [2] and the fleet of the Yuan dynasty, commanded by Admirals Omar and Fan Yi on the Bạch Đằng River (today Quảng Ninh province), which Prince Hưng Đạo staged an ambush that ...
At the Bạch Đằng River in April 1288, Prince Hưng Đạo commanding the Vietnamese forces staged an ambush on Omar's Yuan fleet in the third Battle of Bạch Đằng. [79] The Vietnamese placed hidden metal-tipped wooden stakes in the riverbed and attacked the fleet once it had been impaled on the stakes. [85] Omar himself was taken prisoner.
This battle resulted in the complete independence of Vietnam from Chinese rule. Battle of Bạch Đằng (981) between the Vietnamese army commanded by Lê Hoàn and troops of the Song dynasty. Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288) between the Vietnamese army commanded by Trần Hưng Đạo and troops of the Yuan dynasty, resulting in a Vietnamese ...
In 1288, Commander-in-Chief Prince Trần Quốc Tuấn, inspired by Ngô Quyền, employed the same tactic against the Yuan Dynasty during the Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288). This engagement was a decisive Đại Việt victory and was one of the last major engagements in the Mongol invasions of Vietnam. Both battles are widely considered to ...
1288, where General Trần Hưng Đạo employed tactics used in 938 to drive out Mongol invaders. The stakes of Bạch Đằng river were defensive obstacles featured in the three famous battles on the river. The first event was in 938, as part of Ngô Quyền's battle strategy. Several ancient stakes were discovered by archaeologists.
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April 9 – Battle of Bạch Đằng: Đại Việt general Trần Hưng Đạo sinks the fleet of an invading Mongol-led Yuan expeditionary army (some 94,000 men). He orders the placing of steel-tipped bamboo stakes (to create an ambush) in the Bach Dang River near Ha Long Bay.
The battle took place on the field of Bạch Hạc, now located in Vĩnh Phúc province, northwest of Hanoi in mid-January 1258. The Mongol army defeated the Vietnamese counter forces of war elephants but failed to capture Trần Thái Tông as he escaped by boat, and the capital Thang Long , which was captured and sacked by the Mongols five ...