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In lugnet.castle, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> Eventually the value of foot-soldiers got a big boost when the
> arquebus was deemed unworthy of samurai; Nobunaga used them to great advantage
> and became the first warlord to unify Japan.
I seem to recall hearing of one diminutive warlord who greatly favored the
use of a short-barrelled arquebus for controlling unruly crowds and was
thereafter referred to as the Sawed-Off Shogun.
Dave!
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| (...) advantage (...) OOoooooOOoooo, hurl, puke, vomit. Just for that, I'll ruin the joke: it was called a blunderbus (if you want the shot-gun effect. A musketoon if you mean a short-barreled solid ball shooter. Nyahh. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) As far I understood from my studies, the military history of medieval Japan is basically divided into two sections, divided by the development of the shogunate. The shoguns began to encourage sword-worship and a harsh division between the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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