Ming–Kotte War

Date	1410 (Dreyer) or 1411 (most authorities)
Location	Kingdom of Kotte
Result	Ming victory, with the kidnapping of the Kotte king

Belligerents

Ming Dynasty

Kingdom of Kotte

Commanders and leaders

Zheng He

King Alakeshwara

Strength

Casualties and losses

The Ming-Kotte War was a conflict between the Ming Dynasty of present-day China and the Kingdom of Kotte, a former kingdom located in the southwest of present day Sri Lanka in 1410 or 1411. The war was to stop piracy and a quest for tooth relic of Buddha. Leading 2000 marines, the Chinese admiral Zheng He broke through the capital of Kotte and captured King Alakeshwara. The king along with the Queen and other elites were taken under captivity to China. They were returned in 1414 with a Chinese puppet nominee to the throne who would be quickly eliminated as Sri Lanka quickly became unified.^[1]

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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