• Su Dingfang (traditional Chinese: 蘇定方; simplified Chinese: 苏定方; pinyin: Dìngfāng; Wade–Giles: Su Tingfang) (591–667), formal name Su Lie (蘇烈) but went...
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    was a military campaign in 655–657 led by the Tang dynasty generals Su Dingfang and Cheng Zhijie against the Western Turkic Khaganate ruled by Ashina...
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    Tang finally acquiesced in 660, sending 130,000 troops under General Su Dingfang. Meanwhile, Kim Yu-sin set out from Silla with 50,000 soldiers and fought...
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    dynasty official Su Wei or Wuwei, a Sui-era official Su Liangsi, Duke of Wen, chancellor to Emperor Ruizong during the Tang dynasty Su Dingfang, Tang-era general...
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    and the Western Turkic Khaganate was finally annexed after General Su Dingfang's defeat of Khagan Ashina Helu in 657. Around this time, the Tang court...
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    from their offices. In 657, Emperor Gaozong commissioned the general Su Dingfang, who had served under Cheng Zhijie in the earlier failed campaign, to...
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    Eventually, the Tang defeated and annexed the Western Turkic Khaganate after Su Dingfang defeated Qaghan Ashina Helu in 657. Unlike much of the nobility in his...
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    on 14 October and the rebellion was vanquished. In the summer of 661, Su Dingfang led an army of 44,000 across the sea and laid siege to Pyongyang while...
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    inconclusively. Another expedition was dispatched under the leadership of Su Dingfang, Ashina Mishe, and Ashina Buzhen. The Tang generals convinced Axijie...
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    River (Chinese: 曳咥河大戰) took place in 657 between Tang dynasty general Su Dingfang and the Western Turkic Khaganate qaghan Ashina Helu during the Tang campaign...
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    queen of the Lombards Li Xiaogong, prince of the Tang dynasty (d. 640) Su Dingfang, general of the Tang dynasty (d. 667) Aredius, abbot and saint Faroald...
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  • conquered by an alliance of the Tang dynasty and Silla, led by general Su Dingfang and King Munmu of Silla. The Japanese envoys detained in Chang'an are...
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    Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 596) Severus Sebokht, Syrian scholar and bishop Su Dingfang, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 591) Wighard, archbishop of Canterbury...
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    Taizong's successor, Emperor Gaozong, who dispatched an army in 657 led by Su Dingfang against the Western Turk qaghan Ashina Helu. Ashina was defeated and...
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    conquered the Eastern Turkic Khaganate. Under Emperor Gaozong, Tang general Su Dingfang conquered the Western Turkic Khaganate, an important ally of the Byzantine...
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    out towards Baekje to further relieve Silla. The army led by Admiral Su Dingfang sailed across the Yellow Sea towards and landed on the western coastline...
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    occupied the river banks for many centuries. In 657, Tang dynasty general Su Dingfang defeated Ashina Helu, qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, at the...
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    under Emperor Gaozong, and the khaganate was annexed after General Su Dingfang's defeat of Qaghan Ashina Helu in 657. The Western Turks attempted to...
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  • years reign of King Uija), Queen Eun'go was captured by a Tang general Su Dingfang and sent to Tang, along with her husband, some of his sons, high-level...
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    conquered by an alliance of the Tang dynasty and Silla, led by general Su Dingfang and King Munmu of Silla. The Japanese envoys detained in Chang'an are...
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    Silla/Tang forces, Baekje soon fell when Kim Yu-Sin and the Tang general Su Dingfang surrounded Gongju and King Uija surrendered. The 5,000 Baekje army was...
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    With a resounding victory over the tribes in 657, engineered by General Dìngfāng (蘇定方), Chinese overlordship was imposed to their East after a final mop-up...
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    Li Shiji believed that Illig Qaghan was stalling for time; they and Su Dingfang's vanguard combined and attacked Illig Qaghan's tent. Illig Qaghan fled...
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    Xiaotai and all his 13 sons were killed in combat. Famed Tang general Su Dingfang, who was instrumental in conquering Baekje, was unable to overcome Pyongyang's...
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    takes part and he is shot with arrows by a general in Liu Heita's troop, Su Dingfang. The cause of that conflict was the envy of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji...
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  • Gaozong of Tang’s reign. Jin Pil myeong [ja] collapsed Baekje in 660 with Su Dingfang who was a four-star rank as the Silla-Tang alliance‘s general. After...
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  • leading to the 657 conquest of the Western Turks by the Tang general Su Dingfang. Emperor Taizong of Tang was proclaimed Khagan of the Göktürks in 658...
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    army was divided into different forces, with one force led by admiral Su Dingfang consisting of 130,000 men on several thousand ships sailing across the...
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    was merely stalling for time, joined their forces and their vanguard, Su Dingfang, attacked Ashina Duobi's encampment on March 27, 630, defeating him and...
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    Western Turks ruled by the qaghan Ashina Helu in 657 with an army led by Su Dingfang. Ashina was defeated and the khaganate was absorbed into the Tang Empire...
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