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Samurai Armies 1550-1615 (Men at Arms Series, 86)
Samurai Armies 15501615 - Men at Arms Series, 86 Author:Stephen Turnbull In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, one of the greatest original thinkers... more » in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponents cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.« less
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