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The Anglo-Satsuma War: From the Road at Namamugi to Gunfire in Kagoshima Bay
How did the Namamugi Incident of 1862 lead toward fighting in Kagoshima Bay the next year? Different responses by the shogunate and Satsuma, seven arriving ships, seizure of domain vessels, losses on both sides and postwar negotiations provide a sequence for reading the Anglo-Satsuma War.
