Talk:Battle of Shiroyama

message: the Satsuma Rebellion page says that only 400 of Saigo's men survived to take place in the battle of shiroyama so I do not understand how there could be 25000)
He means to say there that it was all that were left of the 25000 men there. 
However, I do have to point out that there seems to be a great ammount romanatisim here, saying how the Samurai were so brave and what not. I think it needs a little clean-up.
The Last Samurai This page seems to have a better description towards the bottom but says there were 40,000 vrs 300,000.
How I mostly found out about Shiroyama from Sabaton who is a band that made a great song about it... I suggest listening to it, but try to find the video without the sound of people fighting in the background  Someoersonyouknow (talk) 15:06, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: question of consistency

message: I find this rather hard to believe. Keeping an army of that size in a field would be a logistical nightmare, especially under Japan's conditions at that time. Not to mention that it would have been quite useless at that moment, having to face less then 500 opponents. At the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon had around 200.000 soldiers, I frankly doubt that Yamagata Aritomo had more then 30-40.000 at once in the field.  lists it as 30.000 soldiers, which is much more likely for that time and conditions. I have changed it to reflect this. Flavius T (talk) 14:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imperial Army having 300.000 soldiers? 

message: I wanted to know how the people on here found out about Shiroyama. I found out about it from listening to a band called Sabaton and their new album called The Last Stand. All of their songs are about wars or soldiers and are very interesting. Someoersonyouknow (talk) 16:01, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did you find out about Shiroyama? 

message: There has been repeated editing of the casualty statistics for the Imperial Army, shifting between 30 (the number with a citable source) and 10,000 or more. This is due to a popular misconception that  attributes the Imperial casualties from the entire Satsuma Rebellion to this final battle. I check weekly to ensure that the correct information is listed, but I appreciate the help of others in preventing the further spread of misinformation. Jeffinated (talk) 07:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated editing of casualty statistics. 

message: Hey guy who hates that movie, metacritic is that way. Jtrainor (talk) 14:04, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  I removed all the crap about the Last Samurai 

message: I don't know anything about the history of Japan. But
"The samurai, under heavy fire, charged the lines of the Imperial Army, which had not been trained for close-quarter sword fighting. In just a few minutes, the once organized line turned into disarray. Highly skilled samurai swordsmanship prevailed against an army with very little traditional training."
saying this makes it sound like there would be a lot more casualties inflicted than 30
As I have said I know nothing about the subject but this just doesn't sound right. Lamestname (talk) 22:25, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  text and statistics contradict each other