Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Shiroyama (1877)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Shiroyama”
24 Sep 1877 — Saigō Takamori, a hero of the restoration, dies with his last few hundred followers on a hill above Kagoshima. The Satsuma Rebellion cost at least 12,000 lives on both sides and was the last armed challenge by the samurai.
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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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