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Beschreibung
In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, during the Battle of Nagashino, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent's cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.
In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armoury, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, during the Battle of Nagashino, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent's cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.
Über den Autor
Stephen Turnbull
Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Golden Age
Samurai Armies
Samurai Battles
Sieges
Dress and Equipment: Samurai
Dress and Equipment: Ashigaru
The Plates

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1979
Fachbereich: Öffentliche Verwaltung
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780850453027
ISBN-10: 085045302X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Turnbull, Stephen
Illustrator: Hook, Richard
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 248 x 185 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen Turnbull
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.1979
Gewicht: 0,164 kg
Artikel-ID: 133611813

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