- 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...
- "
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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
