The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (Japanese:下関海戦, Shimonoseki Kaisen) was a naval engagement fought on July 16, 1863, by the United States Navy warship USS Wyoming against the powerful daimyō (feudal lord) Mōri Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in...

The battle of Shimonoseki straits

Welcome to the Rediscovery Channel where two armchair historians set out on a quest to (re)discover history.Each week one of us tells the other a story from history that the other may or may not have heard off.Why? Because history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And in order to understand where we're going, it is imperative to know where we came from.And since history is written by the victors, all the more reason to have a closer look at the forgotten, the curious, and the neglected stories.

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The battle of Shimonoseki straits

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