August 28, 1597 · South coast Theater
August 28, 1597
Japanese agents fed Seoul a false report that a Japanese general could be intercepted at sea; Yi Sun-sin, reading it as a trap, refused the order to sail. He was arrested, tortured, stripped of rank, and reduced to a common soldier. His rival Won Gyun took the fleet out, was ambushed at night at Chilcheollyang, and lost virtually all of it. Won Gyun was killed. Thirteen ships escaped.
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