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One of Oda Nobunaga’s fabled set-piece atrocities was the third siege of the Nagashima temple-fortresses. Supposedly he built up a wooden wall that he set on fire and burned the fortress and all it’s 20,000 defenders to ashes. Is this really plausible or just part of the Nobunaga legend?

by /u/LaBitedeGide in /r/AskHistorians

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