Major conflict1575

Battle of Nagashino

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Nagashino · Shitaragahara · Mikawa Province

Estimated casualties

3.0K – 10Kestimated dead

Takeda dead variously estimated from ~3,000 up to ~10,000 (latter likely exaggerated); Oda-Tokugawa losses comparatively light.

SOURCEWikipedia

Fought 28 June 1575 at Shitaragahara near Nagashino Castle, the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu used massed arquebus volleys behind palisades to annihilate the Takeda cavalry under Katsuyori, a landmark in the use of firearms in Japan.

Belligerents2

Oda-Tokugawa alliance
Takeda clan

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Nagashino
Stephen Turnbull, The Samurai Sourcebook
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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