Dương Ngạn Địch, a Ming loyalist commander driven from Longmen, sailed in with Hoàng Tiến through the Soài Rạp mouth. Lord Nguyễn Phúc Tần sent them to Mỹ Tho, where they built a town and market among Vietnamese and Khmer and cleared land for farms.
Migration
Dương Ngạn Địch's Ming loyalists settle Mỹ Tho
- 1679
- Southeast Asia
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