PolledHistory - 13-20 Oct: the Imjin War

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Last week I actually forgot to add a vote, but I figured we don't cover east asian history enough. A very interesting topic full of strategic brilliance is the Imjin War - a war between a newly unfiied Japan and Joseon Korea. 

In Japan, the islands were united by a guy called Totoyomi Hideyoshi. He wanted to have more than Japan. He decided to raise an army, and asked the Joseon (the nation in the Korean peninsula) of they could access through korean territory into China. The Korean king refused to let him through, and in 1592 the war began.

Totoyomi sent a few thousand samurai into the southern Korean peninsula, quickly capturing Busan. The Koreans were often defeated on land. The korean peninsula was quickly invaded. However, things changed when a man named Yi-Sun-Sin became the leader of the navy. Yi built a well designed navy with "turtle ships" that were extremely powerful. 

Yi Sun Sin defeated tens and hundreds of Japanese ships in multiple battles. The Japanese troops in Korea were without supply. When the Chinese joined the war on Korea's side, they regained the north of the Joseon, and the Japanese ran out of supply and they retreated back to Busan, the southernmost big city in Korea and the first city the Japanese captured. Totoyomi launched a second invasion with much more men. 

Admiral Yi Sun Sin was arrested at the time, so the Japanese had initial success but Yi was freed and stopped Japanese supply again. By 1598, the Koreans and Chinese had came with another large army, and Hideyoshi died, ending the war. There was huge casualties for both. Korea was devastated, Japan failed, and China took a huge economic blow and the ruling Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by the Qing.

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