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Nagashino 1575 Slaughter at the barricades 1st Edition

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Nagashino 1575 Slaughter at the barricades 1st Edition

Author(s)

Stephen Turnbull

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1st Edition

ISBN

9781782002550, 9781841762500, 9781855326194

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Osprey Publishing

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PDF and EPUB

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A compact, illustrated guide to a key battle that originated firearm warfare in Japan. 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.

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Nagashino 1575 Slaughter at the barricades 1st Edition

SKU: 9781782002291

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Full Title

Nagashino 1575 Slaughter at the barricades 1st Edition

Author(s)

Stephen Turnbull

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781782002291, 9781841762500, 9781855326194

Publisher

Osprey Publishing

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A compact, illustrated guide to a key battle that originated firearm warfare in Japan. 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.