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Battle of Toba–Fushimi (1868)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Toba–Fushimi”

27–30 Jan 1868 — South of Kyoto, about 5,000 Satsuma and Chōshū troops under the imperial banner defeat a shogunal army roughly three times their size. The former shogun Yoshinobu escapes to Edo by sea, and politically the war is decided within days.

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Battle site
Chapter
Meiji Restoration and Boshin War (chapter 3 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas
Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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Map showing Battle of Toba–Fushimi (1868), battle site in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
BATTLE SITE · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

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