What the records say
- When
- 12 Dec 1637 – 8 Jan 1638
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 32.79° N, 130.37° E
- Description
- 1637 A battle of Shimabara Rebellion
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Siege of Shimabara Castle
1637–1638 unsuccessful siege in Japan
The siege of Shimabara Castle was an unsuccessful siege of the Shimabara Castle by rebel peasants and ronin during Shimabara Rebellion. Although the castle garrison was too weak to defend the castle town, which was completely looted and burned down, the numerically superior rebels were not able to storm the heavily fortified citadel.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Shimabara Rebellion: The siege of Shimabara Castle ends after 27 days in Japan's Tokugawa shogunate (part of modern-day Nagasaki prefecture) as the rebel…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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