Major conflict1560

Battle of Okehazama

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Okehazama · Owari Province · modern Aichi Prefecture

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 12 June 1560 Oda Nobunaga, heavily outnumbered, launched a surprise attack and killed Imagawa Yoshimoto, vaulting the Oda clan to the front rank of Sengoku warlords and launching Nobunaga's drive toward unification.

Belligerents2

Oda clan
Imagawa clan

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Okehazama
Shinchō Kōki (chronicle of Nobunaga)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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