Battle of Angolpo
Battle of Angolpo | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Fleet of Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
Joseon navy | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Kato Yoshiaki |
Yi Eok-gi Won Gyun | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
42 ships[1] | 56 warships[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
42 ships[3] |
19 dead[3] 114 wounded[3] |
Battle of Angolpo | |
Hangul | 안골포해전 |
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Hanja | 安骨浦海戰 |
Revised Romanization | Angolpo Haejeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Angolpo Haejŏn |
The Battle of Angolpo took on 16 August 1592 two days after the
Overview
News of the Japanese defeat at the
Yi Sun-sin received news of their movements on 16 August and he advanced towards Angolpo to confront them. This time the Japanese were unwilling to follow the Koreans into open water and stayed onshore. They would not take the bait. In response, the Korean fleet moved forwards and bombarded the anchored Japanese fleet for hours until they retreated inland. Later, the Japanese returned and escaped on small boats. Both Kuki Yoshitaka and Kato Yoshiaki survived the battle.[3]
Aftermath
Won Gyun was left behind to mop up Japanese soldiers marooned on a small isle, but fled after receiving a false report of a large Japanese fleet approaching. The Japanese managed to drift to shore using rafts made from the wreckage of their ships.[3]
On 23 August,
The battles of Hansan Island and Angolpo forced Hideyoshi to give a direct order to his naval commanders to cease all unnecessary naval operations and limit activity to the immediate area around Pusan Harbor. He told his commanders that he would come to Korea personally to lead the naval forces himself, but Hideyoshi was never able to carry through on this as his health was deteriorating rapidly. This meant that all the fighting would be in Korea, not China, and that Pyongyang would be the furthest northwestern advance of the Japanese armies (to be sure,
References
- ^ a b Hawley 2005, p. 235.
- ^ Hawley 2005, p. 234.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hawley 2005, p. 239.
Bibliography
- Hawley, Samuel (2005). The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China. Republic of Korea and U.S.A.: The Royal Asiatic Society/The Institute of East Asian Studies.
- Turnbull, Stephen (2002). Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War. Great Britain: Cassell & Co.
- Sohn, Pow Key, ed. (1977). Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-Shin. Republic of Korea: Yonsei University Press.
See also
- The Four Campaigns of Admiral Yi during the Imjin Year (1592)
- Siege of Jinju (1592)
- Battle of Haengju
- Battle of Myeongnyang
- Battle of Hansando