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  Siege of Noda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The siege of Noda took place in 1573, when Takeda Shingen, encouraged by his victory at the battle of Mikata ga Hara, decided to push further into Mikawa Province.
Noda castle, situated on the Toyokawa (Toyo river), was commanded by Suganuma Sadamichi.
Shingen's kanabori-shū (miners' corps) tunnelled into the castle moat, draining it and depriving the defenders of their drinking water as well as their defense.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Noda   (170 words)

  
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Adachi Kagemori Died 1248, A warrior of the Adachi family, Kagemori was the son of Morinaga.
Amako Okihisa Died 1534 Okihisa was the son of Tsunehisa.
In 1573, Oda laid siege to Nagamasa's castle at Odani.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt   (16714 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
son of Mōri Motonari, Takakage was adopted by the Kobayakawa family.
The “Siege” of Kōzuki Castle is a misnomer, as the castle was the site of successive sieges and attacks over a two-year period - 1577 to 1578.
While Kōzuki Castle was under siege by the army of Mori, Hideyoshi himself returned with ten thousand soldiers to aid Amago in his defense of the castle.
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 Mori Motonari
On the night before his son's departure, Motonari summons his three sons and gives them the now famous lecture -- that one arrow by itself can be easily broken, but three arrows together are unbreakable -- and tells them to protect their bond of brotherhood.
The long siege has continued through 1543 and the strength of the Ouchi forces are all but depleted, and the men are demoralized, particularly due to the treachery of the Yoshikawa.
Motonari slaps his son across the cheeks declaring that he deserves to be executed for such a rude display of anger.
www.kikutv.com /shows/Japanese_Programs/Inactive/mori_motonari   (4562 words)

  
 Koryukan -- History of the Daito Ryu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is during this siege that the two brothers were said to have dissected bodies of fallen enemy soldiers in order to study their anatomical structures.
A sniper's bullet put an end to his life during the siege of Noda castle in april of 1573, as he approached enemy lines to listen to a defender playing his flute.
He designated his son to be the first of a lineage and thus had is five principal generals (among which was Tokugawa) swear that if anything should happen to him his son Hideyori would be Shogun, they all agreed.
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 Wired News: Attack on Spy Activist's Site
The publisher of cryptome.org, which houses a massive archive of files related to spy agencies, recently started publishing a series of classified CIA documents and personnel files related to Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency.
Noda is a former employee of the PSIA who was prosecuted and released on probation.
The document Noda distributed appears to be a PSIA personnel file with over 400 names, birthdates, and titles, starting with Director General Hidenao Toyoshima.
www.wired.com /news/infostructure/1,37746-0.html   (529 words)

  
 Shingen Vs Kenshin
Takeda Shingen was born Katsuchiyo in 1521, the eldest son of Takeda Nobutora; his adult name becoming Harunobu.
The loyalty shown to Shingen was extended even to the impetuous Takeda Katsuyori (Shingen’s son by a daughter of Suwa Yorishige), which culminated in the disastrous battle of Nagashino (1575).
In death, the two men were (supposedly) assassinated, Kenshin by (allegedly) a ninja in his toilet (!) in 1578 and Shingen by a sniper’s bullet at the siege of Noda (1573).
www.samurai-archives.com /kvs.html   (2572 words)

  
 12vayechi
Perhaps what we commemorate is not the siege itself, but the warning signal it was meant to serve but went unheard.
The final siege of Jerusalem should have served as a final warning signal to King Tzidkiyahu and affirmed the prophet's position.
As Parashat Vayechi tells of the passing of Yaakov and his sons, which is immediately followed by the bitter slavery in Egypt, this parasha is "closed," symbolizing the hopelessness of the situation that unfolds.
www.vbm-torah.org /archive/salt-bereishit/12-6vayechi.htm   (4109 words)

  
 The Age of the Samurai - Takeda Shingen 1521-1573
Despite his growing successes it seems that Shingen's father was not a little jealous of his son, which ultimately led to his deposition on 7 July 1541.
In many ways their superstition was well founded because in 1546 she gave birth to a son called Takeda Katsuyori and he would be the man who took the Takeda clan to annihilation at Nagashino against Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Each night one of the Noda garrison played a flute, which captivated some of the Takeda soldiers and none more so than Shingen himself who was particular taken by its haunting melody.
www.taots.co.uk /content/view/33/31   (996 words)

  
 The House of Ice: Rape of Nanking
First, the victim is filled with water through the mouth and sometimes the nose, usually to see them choke.
In these 2 short weeks we here in Nanking have been through a siege; the Chinese army has left defeated and the Japanese Army has come in.
On that day, Nanking was still a beautiful city we were so proud of, with law and order still prevailing; today it is a city laid waste, ravaged, completely looted, much of it burned.
houseofice.tripod.com /history/japaneseholocaust.shtml   (1893 words)

  
 Japan Karatedo Organization : JKO Forums : Japanese Invasions of Korea
Their purpose was to increase their zeal for fighting by knowledge of the impossibility of flight.' At the siege of Chokoji in 1570 Shibata Katsuie deliberately smashed all the water storage jars before leading his men in a desperate sally out of the castle that succeeded in driving the enemy away.
This was the harsh historical reality of warfare, as was the widespread recognition that a surprise night attack, often to the accompaniment of burning buildings and mobs of foot soldiers, provided a better guarantee of victory than an openly declared challenge.
When the shogun declared his son to be a rebel, the Onin War shifted to a major conflict between the shogun (supported by the Hosokawa) and his brother (supported by the Yamana).
www.jko.com /portal/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=39   (13271 words)

  
 Nanking Massacre Did You Mean nanking_massacre_ec33
Many of the historical accounts detailing the Nanking Massacre are quite macabre and ghastly, even by the often brutal standards of warfare, siege and conquest in the Industrial Age.
It is even believed that the Japanese troops often forced families to commit acts of incest: sons were forced to rape their mothers, fathers were forced to rape daughters.
Two Japanese sublieutenants, Mukai Toshiaki and Noda Takeshi said to be competing with each other to see who could kill one hundred Chinese first.
www.did-you-mean.com /Nanking_Massacre_ec33.html   (3974 words)

  
 Total War Center Forums - archers, slingers, skirmishers
Outside of flame, onagers can be good at taking a city the turn it is sieged to avoid the threat of reinforcements(This is probably my favorite use.
Basically they are best for sieging a city as their name denotes.
This is its main vulnerability in my opinion being that to use it is to put it in the open to cavalry and so forth.
www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=19507   (4575 words)

  
 ospreysamurai.com - Knights and Samurai
In 1576 Oda Nobunaga was wounded in the leg while conducting operations against the Ikko sectarians of Ishiyama Honganji, three years after his great rival Takeda Shingen had been mortally wounded by a bullet fired from the besieged castle of Noda.
The fall of Constantinople to Turkish heavy artillery in 1453 sent shockwaves round Christian Europe, and the Reconquista of the Spanish kingdom of Granada was to a large extent an artillery war, the siege of Malaga in 1487 being the last recorded occasion in Europe of the use of trebuchets.
The fortress revolution involved the use of artillery and the building of lower, thicker walls, which were not always of stone: fortifications of earth, which absorbed the cannon shot, could be built at a fraction of the cost.
www.ospreysamurai.com /knights.html   (2148 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Japan-China: Why All the Fuss?
The Japanese invasion of China resulted in the outright slaughter of millions of Chinese, many of them in massive acts of maniacal cruelty typified by the siege and capture of Nanking in December 1937.
While the western world was concentrating on an approaching Christmas that marked a slow economic rise out of the Depression and on Adolf Hitler's continuing "diplomacy" in Europe, the bloodbath of Nanking made some headlines but relatively little impact outside Asia.
A sad staple of war crimes trials at the end of World War II was the photographs of Japanese soldiers with samurai swords raised above their heads beginning the fatal arc that would decapitate the prisoners bowed on their knees before them.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=042005E   (1162 words)

  
 POTTED BIOGRAPHIES OF HISTORICAL FIGURES MENTIONED IN THE SAMURAI
They killed samurai, set fire to things and generally caused so much confusion that in the morning it was found at the dawn inspection of heads that the Takeda had killed their own comrades, fathers had killed sons, retainers had killed masters and so forth.
Ujinao (1562-1591),a son of Ujimasa, marched against Takeda Katsuyori and defeated him in 1579 in a dispute over the successor to Uesugi Kenshin (which had been promised to Kagetora, Ujimasa's brother, but had been taken by Kagekatsu, a nephew of Kenshin's with the aid of Katsuyori).
Gathering a large army, he answered the summons of Shogun Yoshiaki for aid against Nobunaga in 1571.Shingen battled Ieyasu at Mikata-ga-hara, then marched on to Kyoto He was struck by a bullet during the siege of Noda Castle in Mikawa and died.
www.home.netspeed.com.au /reguli/samhist.htm   (2668 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After SHINGENs’ son, the impetuous KATSUYORI, died under hoof with the last ragged remnants of his father’s great clan, swinging his father’s great sword, the KAInoKUNI GO YOSHIHIRO, TOKUGAWA gained the rich TAKEDA spoils and spears.
Advancing quickly, to fief and family, he had distinguished himself with the ASAI and ASAKURA and was now NOBUNAGA’s right arm and fist, leading the whole of the efforts down the SANYODO, to the lands of the MORI...
When the dust settled, the remaining ODA house, 2nd son, NOBUO and 3rd son, NOBUTAKA were pacified in their expected ambitions, by HIDEYOSHI and the council of the NOBUNAGA generals - including SHIBATA KATSUIYE.
www.reninet.com /shoshin/oda.htm   (655 words)

  
 Kessen III Officer FAQ - IGN FAQs
Hanbei Takenaka Chapter 3 Siege of Inabayama He is located north of Tatsuoki Saito's position in a small area behind the castle.
Amalia van Kyre Chapter 4 Siege of Sakai Dominico Sanchez Chapter 4 Siege of Sakai You can find a glowing object east of Amalia's position.
Takatora Todo Chapter 7 Siege of Odani Castle You can find him southwest of the room that Hideyoshi's battalion will appear in.
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 JEWISH HISTORY TIMELINE
Birth of Ishmael - son of Abraham and Hagar
Division of Israel and Judea Rehovoam son of Solomon.
R.Yehezkel Landau- Responsa Noda Biyehudah- Opposition to Chassidism Opposition to Kabbalistic prayers prior to performance of Mitzvot.
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 Samurai Katsu Kaishu the Man Who Saved Early Modern Japan with  ManEbooks.com
But he was nevertheless bound by his duty as a direct retainer of the Tokugawa to serve in the best interest of his liege lord, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
In March 1868, with a formidable fleet of twelve warships at his disposal, this son of a petty samurai was the most powerful man in Edo.
And as head of the Tokugawa army, he was determined to burn Edo Castle rather than relinquish it in battle, and to wage a bloody civil war against Saigo's forces.
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 Weekly Torah Portion -- Rosh Hashana Reflections
Her son, Yitzchak, is the first Jew to be circumcised at 8 days.
Distorted offshoots of Judaism meanwhile bring pagans closer to monotheism and morality-- Israel's priestly kingdom might be tainted by too intimate contact with them at that stage; in the 2nd stage, the nations become more civilized, and Jewry, via Israel, returns to a healthy blend of Torah and Worldliness.
Sara and Hagar; Chana really celebrates, as Avraham, only after her son is weaned-- helpless infantile natural man may then begin his formal education as Divine Image man. Chana proclaims a RH theme: THERE'S NONE HOLY AS GOD.
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 The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK - Lawmakers pass out more funding to local volunteer departments
The amount giv-en to departments this year was more than double the normal allocation because of the fire siege the state felt during the past year, Northern Oklahoma Development As-sociation official Larry Zerger said.
The extra funds were appropriated by the state’s legislators, who oversee the yearly stipends more than 800 departments across the state receive each year.
The counties under the banner of NODA — Alfalfa, Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Major and Noble — received a total of $360,000.20 Saturday.
www.enidnews.com /localnews/local_story_169001417.html   (711 words)

  
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En mi opinion, son de aquellos países donde se juntan una serie de cosas que hacen difícil llegar.
Fernando Núñez Noda, a technology columnist and manager of ContenidoDigital.com, says that the political activism of the future will develop on the Internet.
"The ethical use of political information on the web will bear fruit for those who handle it properly." Núñez Noda points out that there is a considerable gap between the traditional parties, which have not been able to master the new tools, and the newest groups that do make intensive use of the new technologies.
www.worldofradio.com /dxld3013.txt   (12521 words)

  
 The Sonny Chiba Collection-Volume 1 (1974)
He was not, however, the son of an American GI, nor was he a street gang member.
He was born Sadao Maeda in 1939 and seems to have had a middle class background.
Disguising himself as a policeman Tsurugi rescues the man but is soon double-crossed by the Owadas who take the case and the money that Tsurugi was to be paid.
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 Portrait of America
The siege was laid in strict accordance with the best military practice.
The lieutenants ordered their forces not to allow their line to be flanked nor to permit entrance to the beleaguered fort to anyone besides the painter and his assistants (five men and two women!) who constituted the total strength of the army to be subdued and driven from its positions.
Before opening fire, and simultaneously with the final maneuvers which occupied the strategic posts and reinforced those already occupied, there presented himself, in all the splendor of his power and glory, and in keeping with the best gentlemanly traditions of His Majesty's Army, the great capitalist plenipotentiary, Field-Marshal of the contractors, Mr.
xroads.virginia.edu /~ma04/hess/RockRivera/bios/PortraitofAmerica.html   (2234 words)

  
 Hostages in Iraq (beginning with 4/8/04)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His captors threaten to kill him if the US siege of Falluja is not lifted.
At the head of crowds that laid siege to the coalition's Baghdad headquarters, he described the Americans as the enemy of Shia Muslims and warned that "the people are prepared for martyrdom".
His mother, Ursula Schafer, confirmed her son was missing but said she did not want to comment.
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 DGMA::Mr. Sullivan goes to the San Diego Premier Series Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Your opponent is hopelessly looking down at 5 huge minions (any mix of trolls and siege troops will do) and you get up and yell, ‘It’s a Flush!’ right in his face.
Back in Montreal, the line for customs is really long and the guy in front of me had a baby with him and the female customs agent started yelling at him like crazy.
I figured he didn’t have papers for his son or something.
www.dgma.com /content?id=932   (6439 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Charlotte: Arts: Books: Who's Our Daddy?
In one remarkable instance, as Washington frets during the siege of Boston, he writes: "Could I have foreseen what I have and am like to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command."
Still, Washington and the makeshift Continental Army trump the estimable British monarch and his powerful military.
Even William Howe, the British general at the siege of Boston, acknowledges American ingenuity after being surprised by a daring move at Dorchester Heights.
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 The Hall of Warriors
The general must make himself the eyes of his own army,..., must constantly change position to deal with crises as they occur along the front of his sheltered line, must remain at the point of crises until it is resolved and must still keep alert to anticipate the development of crises elsewhere." [Keegan, p.
On concern for the welfare of subordinates: After the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, Wellington learned that many wounded soldiers had no shelter.
He personally rode thirty miles after dinner to order some officers to give up their lodgings for the wounded.
www.ganesha.org /hall   (3056 words)

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