Shimonoseki campaign
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The Shimonoseki campaign was a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherland
Capture of a Choshu battery at Shimonoseki by British sailors and marines; picture taken by Felice Beato
The Medusa forces its way through the Shimonoseki strait, by Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest
The USS Wyoming battling in the Shimonoseki Straits against the Choshu steam warships Daniel Webster, Lanrick and Lancefield
The French engagement at Shimonoseki, with the warships Tancrède and Sémiramis, under Rear Admiral Charles Jaurès. Le Monde illustré, October 10th, 1863.
Chōshū Domain
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The Chōshū Domain, also known as the Hagi Domain, was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871.
Shimonoseki campaign
…Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan. Despite efforts of appeasement by the Tokugawa shogunate to establish an atmosphere of…
Former site of Hagi Castle in Hagi
The Chōshū Kiheitai fought against the shogunate in the Second Chōshū expedition and the Boshin War.
Mōri Takachika
Hagi Castle, the seat of the Mōri Lords of Chōshū