sentences:  Battle of Bạch Đằng (938)
  
  At the Battle of Bạch Đằng River in 938 near Hạ Long Bay in northern Vietnam the rebel Annamese forces, led by Ngô Quyền defeated the invading forces of the Southern Han state of China and put an end to centuries of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.The victory at Bạch Đằng marked the end of a millennium of First Chinese domination of Vietnam ("The Long Eclipse") and opened up an era of prosperity and independence.