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Battle of Sekigahara
Sekigahara · Mino Province
Estimated casualties
8.0K – 32Kestimated dead
Western Army losses commonly cited ~8,000 killed; some accounts give far higher totals (up to ~30,000+) including the rout. Highly uncertain.
SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter
On 21 October 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army defeated the Western Army loyal to Ishida Mitsunari at Sekigahara, the decisive battle that opened the way to the Tokugawa shogunate and over two centuries of unified rule.
Belligerents2
- Eastern Army (Tokugawa)
- Western Army (Ishida)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Sekigahara
- Stephen Turnbull, Sekigahara 1600
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Sekigahara (1600). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-sekigahara · Sources & methodology