Wen Tianxiang, who had fought against the Yuan in Guangdong and Jiangxi, is captured 12 1278 by Wang Weiyi in Haifeng County, eliminating all the Song land forces nearby.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)