Why the Mongols Lost to Vietnam (They Didn't Expect This)

追加: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]You know what your teachers didn't tell you? The Mongols conquered China. They conquered Persia. They conquered half of Russia, the largest land empire in human history. Three times they invaded Vietnam.

[00:00:13]Three times Vietnam destroyed them. The third invasion in 1287 sent a Mongol fleet up the Bach Dang River.

[00:00:21]General Tran Hung Dao was waiting. He had ordered iron-tipped wooden stakes driven into the riverbed at low tide, hidden under the water at high tide.

[00:00:32]The Mongol fleet sailed in at high tide.

[00:00:35]The tide went out. 400 Mongol [music] ships were impaled and trapped.

[00:00:40]The Vietnamese burned them where they stood.

[00:00:43]The greatest [music] empire in history was buried in a river by a country a fraction of its size.

[00:00:48]The Mongols never came back. Subscribe [music] for more historical facts.

[00:00:54]Because remember,