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The memorial temple to the Song chancellor Lu Xiufu in Yancheng, Jiangsu, 2011.Image: 风之清扬 · CC BY-SA 3.0world · Asia
The battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty
Off Yamen on the coast of Guangdong, a Mongol Yuan fleet cut off and destroyed the last fleet of China’s Song dynasty. The Song chancellor Lu Xiufu leapt into the sea with the child emperor rather than surrender. Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty now ruled all of China. The date is by the calendar historians use for the period.
Source: US Naval Institute, Naval History: A clash of fleets, a dynasty’s end ↗
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