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Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
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Sengoku period
Period of Japanese history from 1467 to 1615
The Sengoku period was the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or Meiō incident (1493) are generally chosen as the period's start date,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Oda Nobunaga
Japanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)
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Military ruler of Japan from 1603 to 1605
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Battle of Nagashino
1575 Oda-Tokugawa victory over the Takeda clan
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