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The Last Samurai led us to believe that the United States played a huge role in the Satsuma Rebellion and presumably the Boshin War, is there any truth to this and did the U.S provide that many foreign advisors and weaponry?

by /u/Uncle_Washington in /r/AskHistorians

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