Ming–Kotte War
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Ming–Kotte War
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The Ming-Kotte War was a conflict between the Ming Dynasty of present-day China and the Kingdom of Kotte, located in the southwest of present-day Sri Lanka, in 1410 or 1411. The war was to stop piracy and a quest for a tooth relic of Buddha. Leading 2000 marines, Chinese Adm. Zheng He took the capital of Kotte and captured Minister Alakeshwara (he was not the king, just a minister who built the Kotte fort during the reign of King Vickramabahu III). The king, along with the queen and other elites, were taken captive and sent to China. They were returned in 1414 with a Chinese puppet nominee to the throne, but it wasn't long before he was eliminated as Sri Lanka quickly became unified.[1]
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References
- ^ A History of Sri Lanka, p. 87
- Dreyer, Edward L. (2006). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming, 1405–1433 (Library of World Biography Series). Longman. ISBN 0-321-08443-8.
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