| Ming conquest of Yunnan | |||||||
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| Part of the military conquests of the Ming dynasty | |||||||
 Ming conquest of Yunnan 1381–1382 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Ming dynasty |
Northern Yuan (Yuan remnants in Yunnan) House of Duan (Dali loyalists) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Hongwu Emperor Fu Youde Lan Yu Mu Ying |
Basalawarmi (Prince of Liang) Duan Shi (Governor-general of Dali) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 250,000[2] | Thousands of Mongol and Chinese Muslim troops | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| heavy lost due to disease | Thousands killed, hundreds of castrations, 20,000 captured | ||||||
The Ming conquest of Yunnan was the final phase in the Ming dynasty expulsion of Mongol-led Yuan dynasty rule from China proper in the 1380s.
- ^ Frederick W. Mote; Denis Twitchett (26 February 1988). The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Cambridge University Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-521-24332-2.
- ^ Dardess 2012, p. 6.