A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chang Hung-fan

by Herbert A. Giles

68Chang Hung-fan 張弘範 (T. 仲疇). Died A.D. 1279. A general under the Yüan dynasty, chiefly famous for his defeat of the last remaining forces of the expiring Sung dynasty at their final refuge in Kuangtung, where he is said to have captured 8,000 of the enemy's vessels (see Lu Hsiu-fu, Chang Shih-chieh). He was canonised as 武畧, afterwards changed to 武忠.