Ming forces decimate Northern Yuan at Buyur Lake
1388
Hongwu's general Lan Yu pursued the Mongol khan deep into the steppes north of the Gobi and crushed his army on the shores of a Mongolian lake. The capture of his court and seventy-seven thousand prisoners broke the Northern Yuan's pretensions to recovering China and confirmed Ming control of the old frontier.
In context
Also in 1388 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in East Asia
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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