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I remember having read/heard somewhere that during the sengoku period in Japan, Takeda and Uesugi were at war and when Uesugi found out Takeda's army was starving he said "wars should be won with swords (?) not rice" and sent his enemy food, was this historically accurate?

by /u/Ouroboros612 in /r/AskHistorians

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