Genealogy Projects tagged with foreign war on the Geni Family Tree

The Boshin War 戊辰戦争

The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō, lit. "War of the Year of the Yang Earth Dragon"), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.The war was founded in dissatisfaction among many nobles and young samurai with the shogunate's handli...