Battle of Yellow Sea

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Article abstract: Type of action: Naval battle during Choson-Japanese Wars. Result: Decisive defeat of the Japanese by the numerically smaller Korean fleet under Yi Sun-shin.

Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s 1592 invasion of Korea was undertaken as the first step in the conquest of China. In May, 1592, Japan took Pusan, and Seoul and Pyongyang fell in the succeeding months. Hideyoshi sent reinforcements to continue the drive from Pyongyang (July, 1592), but instead met with defeat in the Yellow Sea at the hands of the Koreans under Admiral Yi Sun-shin of...

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