Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · BATTLE SITE ·
Siege of Kumamoto Castle (1877)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Kumamoto Castle”
Feb–Apr 1877 — About 4,000 government troops, many of them conscripted farmers’ sons, hold Kumamoto Castle for some fifty days against Saigō’s samurai army. Their stand showed that a conscript army could defeat the warrior class at its own profession.
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- Early Meiji reforms (1868–77) (chapter 4 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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