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Siege of Ulsan
| First siege of Ulsan | |||||||
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| Part of the Imjin War | |||||||
 Joseon and Ming dynasty soldiers assault the Japanese-built fortress at Ulsan | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Joseon and Ming dynasty | Japanese army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ming: Yang Hao Ma Gui Joseon: Gwon Yul |
Ulsan castle Katō Kiyomasa Asano Yoshinaga Reinforcements Mōri Hidemoto Nabeshima Naoshige Hachisuka Iemasa Kuroda Nagamasa | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Ming: 40,000[1] Joseon: 10,000[1] |
Ulsan castle: 10,000 Reinforcements: 13,000[2][3][4] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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According to Ming sources: 1,621 killed[4] 2,908 wounded[4] | ~9,000[3][4] | ||||||
The siege of Ulsan (Korean: 울산성 전투; Hanja: 蔚山城戰鬪; RR: Ulsanseong Jeontu) was an unsuccessful Ming-Joseon attempt to capture Ulsan from the Japanese. The siege lasted from 26 January to 19 February 1598.
- ^ a b Hawley 2005, p. 491.
- ^ "日本戦史. 朝鮮役 （本編・附記）". National Diet Library of Japan (in Japanese).
- ^ a b Hawley 2005, p. 495.
- ^ a b c d "A critique of Samuel Hawley's The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China — Part 2: The second invasion". Great Ming Military. 16 August 2019.
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