- The
Battle of
Tunmen or Tamão was a
naval battle in
which the Ming
imperial navy
defeated a
Portuguese fleet led by
Diogo Calvo in 1521.
Portuguese diplomat...
- "
Tunmen" (屯門), the name for what is now the
western Hong Kong and
Shenzhen area.
Chinese sources state that the
Portuguese settled around the
Tunmen Inlet...
- Tuen Mun (Chinese: 屯門) or
Castle Peak is an area near the
mouth of Tuen Mun
River and
Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of...
-
charged with
driving them off: they
bested the
Portuguese at the
Battle of
Tunmen and in
Xicao Bay; held a
diplomatic mission hostage in a
failed attempt...
- force, the
Portuguese were
defeated by the Ming
Chinese at the
Battle of
Tunmen in Tamão (or Tuen Mun) in 1521,
where the
Portuguese lost two ships. They...
- District) to pray as they go to
Nanyang (Southeast Asia). The
Battle of
Tunmen, when the Ming won a
naval battle against invading Portuguese, was fought...
-
ignored the Ming emperor's
authority by
building a fort at
Tunmen,
after his
request for
Tunmen was denied.
Although buying and
selling children was common...
- force, the
Portuguese were
defeated by the Ming
Chinese at the
Battle of
Tunmen in Tamão or Tuen Mun. In 1521, the
Portuguese lost two
ships at the Battle...
-
Heritage Site in 2005. In 1514,
Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares
arrived at
Tunmen in the
Pearl River Delta. Álvares
likely traveled on
Malaccan or Chinese...
- China. The
Portuguese were
defeated by the
Chinese in 1521 at the
Battle of
Tunmen and in 1522 at the
Battle of Xicaowan,
during which the
Chinese captured...
