C69 Nagashino: 1575 Slaughter at the Barricades (2000)
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A compact, illustrated guide to a key battle that originated firearm warfare in Japan.
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C69 Nagashino: 1575 Slaughter at the Barricades (2000)
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UPC: 9781855326194
Brand: Osprey Publishing
When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga. In 1575 the impetuous Takeda Katsuyori laid siege to Nagashino castle, a possession of Nobunaga's ally, Tokugawa Ieyasu. An army was despatched to relieve the siege, and the two sides faced each other across the Shidarahara. The Takeda samurai were brave, loyal and renowned for their cavalry charges, but Nobunaga, counting on Katsuyori's impetuosity, had 3,000 musketeers waiting behind prepared defences for their assault.
As medieval Japan expert Stephen Turnbull outlines in this book, the outcome of this clash of tactics and technologies was to change the face of Japanese warfare forever.
Table of Contents
Nagashino and the Age of War
The Takeda Clan
Opposing Commanders
Opposing Armies
Opposing Plans
The Siege of Nagashino Castle
The Battle of Nagashino
Aftermath
Military Lessons of Nagashino
Select Bibliography
The Battlefield Today
Wargaming Nagashino
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