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Nagashino 1575 : Slaughter at the Barricades (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Nagashino 1575 Slaughter at the Barricades - Praeger Illustrated Military History Author:Stephen Turnbull 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 a castle of one of Nobunaga's allies, Tokugawa Ieyasu. An army was despatched t... more »o relieve the siege, and the two sides faced each other across the Shidarahara. Nobunaga, counting on Katsuyori's impulsiveness, had 3,000 musketeers waiting behind prepared defences for their assault. The outcome of this clash of tactics and technologies changed the face of Japanese warfare forever.« less