Icarus affair

The Icarus affair was an incident in Japan that occured at one of Nagasaki's ports, where two British sailors disembarked and spent a summer night in the city in 1867. The next day, their bodies were found and no suspects were found or arrested. As a result, the British consul Harry Parkes was convinced by his right-hand man and British Templar William Lloyd to demand compensation from the Tokugawa shogunate for their inactivity. The demands required Tokugawa Yoshinobu to retire the governor of Nagasaki and to send five hundred officers to the foreign sector.Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Blade of Aizu – Chapter 2
Tokugawa conceded to the demands and later resigned as the last shogun of Japan. However, his concession and the affair led to the fracture between the shogunate and the Imperial court. This later led to the start of the Boshin War, which the shogunate, aided by their French allies, fought against the Imperial forces, aided by their British allies.Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Blade of Aizu – Chapter 4
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Blade of Aizu
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