ENGLISH

Armies of the East India Company 1750-1850

By Reid , Stuart

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing Ltd
Language
english
Format
EPUB
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6 MB (6448570 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Cover; Title; Contents; The Golden Age; Samurai Armies; Samurai Battles; Sieges; Dress and Equipment: Samurai; Dress and Equipment: Ashigaru; The Plates; Related Titles; Imprint.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, 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.

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