Toungoo-Hanthawaddy War
| Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–1541) | |||||||||
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| Part of Wars of Toungoo Empire | |||||||||
.png) Toungoo military campaigns (1534–1547) |
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 Toungoo Kingdom
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Hanthawaddy Kingdom Prome Kingdom Confederation of Shan States |
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Tabinshwehti Bayinnaung Saw Lagun Ein Smim Payu João Caeiro |
Takayutpi Binnya Law † Binnya Kyan † Saw Binnya † Narapati of Prome Minkhaung of Prome Thohanbwa Paulo de Seixas |
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Hanthawaddy Army including foreign mercenaries (1534–1539)
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1534–1535 vs. Pegu: 4000 |
1538–1539 (Pegu): 12,000 |
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| High | Extremely high (most of Martaban's residents killed) | ||||||||
Royal Burmese Army including:
Hanthawaddy Army including foreign mercenaries (1534–1539)
1534–1535 vs. Pegu: 4000
1535–1536 vs. Pegu: 6000
1536–1537 vs. Pegu: 7000
1538–1539 vs. Pegu: 7000
1538–1539 (Pegu): 12,000
The Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–1541) (Burmese: တောင်ငူ–ဟံသာဝတီ စစ် (၁၅၃၄–၁၅၄၁)) was a military conflict between Toungoo Kingdom, and the Hanthawaddy Kingdom and its allies the Prome Kingdom and the Confederation of Shan States that took place in present-day Lower Burma (Myanmar) between 1534 and 1541. In a series of improbable events, the upstart Burmese-speaking kingdom defeated Mon-speaking Hanthawaddy, the most prosperous and powerful of all post-Pagan kingdoms before the war. In the following years, Toungoo used the newly acquired kingdom's wealth and manpower to reunify the various petty states that had existed since the fall of Pagan Empire in 1287.
Since its founding in 1279 as an outpost of Pagan Kingdom, Toungoo, located in remote, hard-to-reach corner east of the Pegu Yoma (Bago Yoma) range, had always been a troublesome province for its overlord. During the Ava period, its governors and viceroys raised multiple rebellions (1427–1428, 1437–1442, 1451–1458 and 1468–1470), each time with clandestine or open help from Hanthawaddy, which wanted to keep Ava unstable.
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