Commander of the second Joseon expedition that defeated the Russians on the Amur
In 1658, under Hyojong and at the Qing's request, he led musketeers to the Heilong (Amur) River and destroyed a Russian flotilla. He recorded the campaign in a diary, the Bukjeongnok. The first expedition of 1654 had been led by Byeon Geup.
At Qing’s request, Joseon musketeers twice marched to the Amur region and defeated Russian forces moving south.
Seventeenth king of Joseon; a former hostage in Qing who planned a northern campaign and sent troops against Russia
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence