Nagashino Falls: Gunpowder Unifies Japan Under Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga deployed massed ranks of arquebus-armed ashigaru behind wooden palisades at Nagashino, annihilating the Takeda cavalry charges that had dominated Japanese warfare for generations. The battle demonstrated that firearms had permanently changed the nature of combat in Japan and accelerated Nobunaga's campaign to unify the country under a single military government.
June 28, 1575
451 years ago
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