The Tây Sơn executed Tân Chính vương Nguyễn Phúc Dương and then the former lord Nguyễn Phúc Thuần, who had been betrayed while waiting for a ship to China, and killed most of the family. Only the young Nguyễn Phúc Ánh escaped.
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Tây Sơn execution of the Nguyễn lords
- 19 September 1777
- Southeast Asia
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