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 | | The Kiheitai militia saw action in the Bombardment of Shimonoseki in 1864, during which the fleets of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States fired upon the Chōshū port city of Shimonoseki, and subsequently landed troops. |
 | | As the military arm of the pro-reform faction within the Chōshū domain, the Kiheitai helped overthrow the pro-bakufu faction in the Chōshū civil war, repulsed the Chōshū Expedition sent by the Tokugawa bakufu in 1866, and played an important role in the Boshin War of 1869, which led to the Meiji Restoration. |
 | | Disbanded in 1868, the success of the socially-mixed unit and its western armaments and tactics was an important influence on the development of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on the later system of universal military conscription in Japan. |
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