Shimonoseki campaign

Shimonoseki campaign
Part of the Bakumatsu conflicts

Capture of a Choshu battery at Shimonoseki by British sailors and marines; picture taken by Felice Beato
Date
  • 20 July – 14 August 1863
    (3 weeks and 4 days)
  • 5–6 September 1864
    (1 day)
Location
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 Chōshū Domain
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Land:
2,000
Sea:
28 warships
Land:
1,500
100 artillery pieces
Sea:
6 warships
40 war-junks
Casualties and losses
12 killed
50 wounded
18 killed
29 wounded
2 ships destroyed
1 ship damaged
60 cannons captured

The Shimonoseki campaign (Japanese: 下関戦争/馬関戦争, Hepburn: Shimonoseki Sensō/Bakan Sensō, "Shimonoseki War") was a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan.[1]

  1. ^ Stephen A. Royle (21 April 2017). Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887. Taylor & Francis. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-351-73787-6.