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, and the fleet of the Yuan dynast
Battle of Bạch Đằng, 1288
Chinese warship, probably deployed by the Yuan
17th-century model of a Vietnamese mông đồng fighting boat, a type which probably had constituted much of the Vietnamese naval fleet 400 years earlier
Trần Thánh Tông, personal name Trần Hoảng, was the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, reigning over Đại Việt from 1258 to 1278. After ceding the throne to his son Trần Nhân Tông, Thánh Tông held the