Trần Hưng Đạo
Vietnamese prince, military general of Trần dynasty
Trần Hưng Đạo (Vietnamese: [ʈʂʌ̀n hɯ̄ŋ ɗâwˀ]; 1228–1300), born Trần Quốc Tuấn (陳國峻), also known as Grand Prince Hưng Đạo (Hưng Đạo Đại Vương – 興道大王), was a Vietnamese royal prince, statesman and military commander of Đại Việt military forces during the Trần dynasty who repelled two out of three major Mongol invasions in the late 13th century.
A son of Trần Liễu, the elder brother of Emperor Trần Thái Tông, Trần Hưng Đạo was the commander of the Vietnamese armed forces when the Yuan dynasty under Kublai Khan launched a second invasion of Vietnam in 1285. Despite a string of initial defeats and the loss of the capital Thăng Long, Trần Hưng Đạo's forces eventually drove the overextended Yuan army back to China, inflicting several major defeats upon them as they retreated.
In 1287, Kublai Khan resumed his campaign against Đại Việt with an even larger army under the command of Prince Toghan. Trần Hưng Đạo employed guerrilla warfare and scorched-earth tactics which, coupled with an ambush on the Yuan supply fleet, again forced the overextended Yuan army to retreat despite initial losses. In April 1288, the vastly outnumbered Đại Việt fleet conducted a highly successful ambush on the Bạch Đằng River that led to the almost complete destruction of the Mongol fleet.
Trần Hưng Đạo died of natural causes in 1300 at the age of 70. After his death, he was deified and reverentially referred to as Đức Thánh Trần (德聖陳) or Cửu Thiên Vũ Đế (九天武帝). Numerous locations and institutions in Vietnam are named after him.
Origins
Trần Hưng Đạo was born as Prince Trần Quốc Tuấn (陳 國 峻) in 1228, as a son of Prince Trần Liễu, the elder brother of the new child emperor, Trần Thái Tông, after the Trần dynasty replaced the Lý family in 1225 AD. Later, Trần Liễu—the Empress Lý Chiêu Hoàng's brother-in-law at the time—was forced to defer his own wife (Princess Thuận Thiên) to his younger brother Emperor Thái Tông under pressure from Imperial Regent Trần Thủ Độ to solidify Trần clan's dynastic stability.
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