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Yamen, Battle of

Years: 1277 - 1287

The naval Battle of Yamen, one of the largest naval battles in history, takes place on March 19, 1279 and is considered to be the last stand of the Song Dynasty against the Yuan Dynasty, which had been established by the Mongols in 1271.

Although outnumbered 20:1, the Yuan navy delivers a crushing tactical and strategic victory, annihilating the Song.Today, the battle site is located at Yamen, in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, China.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)