Significant1868 – 1869 · 1 year

Boshin War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Japan · Northern Honshu · Hokkaido

Estimated casualties

15Ksingle estimate · no range published

Civil war overthrowing Tokugawa shogunate and restoring imperial rule. Led to Meiji Restoration.

Belligerents2

Meiji forces
Tokugawa shogunate

ON THE MAPTokugawa Shogunate

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Ueno1868
Battle of Wakamatsu1868
Battle of Goryokaku1869

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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