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The Trưng sisters (Vietnamese: Hai Bà Trưng, 𠄩婆徵, literally "Two Ladies [named] Trưng", c. 14 – c. 43) were Luoyue military leaders who ruled for three years after commanding a rebellion of Luoyue tribes and other tribes in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
After suppressing the Trưng sisters in 44 AD, Ma Yuan continued his crackdown on the Lac Viet resistance and their society. Lac lords who had joined the Trung sisters, who had submitted or surrendered to Ma Yuan would be spared, those who disobeyed were beheaded. [1] Direct imperial government now was imposed on the region for the first time. [2]
The Trưng sisters' rebellion was an uprising in the Jiaozhi province of Han dynasty (today Northern Vietnam) between 40 CE and 43 CE. In 40 CE, the Lạc Việt leader Trưng Trắc and her sister Trưng Nhị rebelled against Chinese authorities. In 42 CE, Han China dispatched General Ma Yuan to lead an army to strike down the uprising. In 43 ...
Articles relating to the Trưng sisters (c. 14 – c. 43), Vietnamese military leaders who ruled for three years after rebelling in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. They are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.
Elsewhere, however, the forces of the Trung sisters were broken by the Han attacks. [3] Thiên attempted to bring her forces south to come to their aid, but the Trung sisters already committed suicide in February of 42 AD. Thiên then fought and lost a battle at the Nhat Duc River ; not wanting to be captured, she committed suicide. [4]
Ma was placed in command of the campaign to suppress the Trung sisters' rebellion. [1] He was given the title Fubo Jiangjun (伏波將軍; General who Calms the Waves). [1] Ma Yuan and his staff began mobilizing a Han army in southern China. [1]
Tây Sơn documents from 1792 and 1802 show that Quang Trung and his successors even accorded noble status to two long-dead Việt women generals, Nguyệt Thai and Nguyệt Độ, who had served with the Trưng sisters in their revolt of 39–43 ce. In 1798, the Tây Sơn court established a new historical bureau with the mission to revise the ...
Copper columns of Ma Yuan (Vietnamese: Cột đồng Mã Viện) were a pair of copper columns erected by General Ma Yuan of Han China after his suppression of the Trung sisters' rebellion in 43 CE. The columns stood at southern frontier of Tượng Lâm (Xianglin) to mark the boundary of Chinese territory against those the considered the ...