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Siege of Kagoshima

Japan · Warfare / Tokugawa War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1863Date range
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Chronological records

1863

Heihachiro Togo22 December 1863

Kagoshima · Warfare / Tokugawa War

Kagoshima is bombarded by the British Royal Navy to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tokaido highway

Names involved

Heihachiro Togo

Provenance

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