- 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...
- Tuen Mun 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 the
earliest settlements...
- 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...
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Shenzhen area.
Chinese sources state that the
Portuguese settled around the
Tunmen Inlet (屯門澳), but the
current whereabouts of the
Tyunmun Inlet is unknown...
-
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 2
ships at the Battle...
-
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...
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called the
Portuguese Folangji 佛郎機 ("Franks") in the 1520s at the
Battle of
Tunmen and
Battle of Xicaowan. Some
other varieties of
Mandarin Chinese pronounced...
- 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...
-
around 1517,
following their defeat by
Chinese troops in the
Battle of
Tunmen and
Battle of Sincouwaan.
Lantau was
visited in 1607 by one of the early...