Trần Minh Tông
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Trần Minh Tông, real name Trần Mạnh, was the fifth emperor of the Trần dynasty who ruled Đại Việt from 1314 to 1329. After ceding the throne to his son Trần Hiến Tông, Minh Tông held the title of Reti
Inscription bearing poem of Trần Minh Tông.
Statue of Emperor Trần Minh Tông
Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288)
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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, 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