High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · War
1288
Tran Hung Dao crushes Mongols at Bach Dang
April 9, 1288
The Vietnamese general lured a retreating Yuan fleet into the Bach Dang River at high tide and impaled them on iron-tipped stakes as the water fell. The spectacular victory, echoing an earlier Vietnamese triumph at the same estuary, ended Mongol ambitions in Dai Viet. Tran Hung Dao's tactical genius at Bach Dang entered Vietnamese national legend, and his name is borne by streets in every major Vietnamese city.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.