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Battle of Kōan (Second Invasion of the Mongols)

Type Event Region Japan Time 1280–1281

Around 1280 Kublai prepared a larger second expedition, the Battle of Kōan; two fleets planned a pincer on Kyushu, but the 1281 Kōan typhoon destroye…

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  1. 1280Jiangnan of the Yuan and Goryeo · East AsiaKublai ordered Fan Wenhu to command the Jiangnan army and Hong Chachu the Goryeo army, building over nine thousand warships and mustering more than a hundred thousand troops, planning a pincer attack on Japan in spring and summer of 1281.
  2. 1281Tsushima Island and Iki Island · Nagasaki PrefectureAdvance units of the Goryeo army captured Tsushima and Iki; local warriors of the Sō and Tachibana clans resisted stubbornly before falling in battle. The two islands were occupied by the Yuan and became forward bases for the attack on Kyushu.
  3. 1281Hakata Bay · Fukuoka PrefectureThe Yuan main force stood off outside Hakata Bay against Japanese defenders behind stone ramparts and could not land a breakthrough. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month the Kōan typhoon destroyed the anchored fleet; the expedition failed completely, and Kublai never attacked Japan again.

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