By Stephen Turnbull
In 1543 3 Portuguese retailers entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the 1st firearms the japanese had ever visible: basic matchlock muskets referred to as arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the japanese armoury, as for hundreds of years the samurai had fought purely with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, in the course of the conflict of Nagashino, one of many maximum unique thinkers within the heritage of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, prepared his arquebusiers in ranks 3 deep at the back of a palisade and proceeded, really actually, to blow his opponent's cavalry to items, marking the start of a brand new period in jap army heritage.
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