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发帖数: 2074 | 1 Nevertheless, he was one of the first of the rebels to acknowledge
that the forcible expulsion of all foreign 'invaders' was an impossible
dream. When Perry's black ships were first sighted at the southern end
of Tokyo Bay, the Shogun had ordered the coastal fire brigades to
stand by, having no other forces to hand; and ten years later, relative
to a vastly more powerful foreign threat, Japan's coastal defences were
no more imposing. In June 1863, at a moment when the shishi were exerting
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