Siege of Kiso Fukushima
| Siege of Kiso-Fukushima | |||||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Takeda clan | Fukushima castle garrison | ||||||||
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| Takeda Shingen | |||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 3600 | 2000 | ||||||||
The 1554 siege of Kiso-Fukushima was a siege by Takeda Shingen on Fukushima Castle, in the Kiso River Valley of Shinano province. This was one of many battles fought during Shingen's campaign to seize control of Shinano.
, commander of the besieged castle, surrendered as his garrison ran out of food and water, as a result of Shingen's starvation siege tactics.
References[]
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
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