Atlas of Battles

commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Akechi Mitsuhide

Battles of Akechi Mitsuhide

16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga, 1516 to 1582

Akechi Mitsuhide is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1570 and 1582: 3 battles and 2 sieges, all in present-day Japan. Taken in date order, the sites lie 610 km apart end to end, 152 km between engagements on average.

Siege of KanegasakiSiege of Mount HieiBattle of NagashinoBattle of TedorigawaBattle of YamazakiSiege of KanegasakiSiege of Mount HieiBattle of NagashinoBattle of TedorigawaBattle of YamazakiŌsakaNagoyaKyotoNaganoYokohamaKōbeHamamatsuTsuWakayamaGifu200 km35.693N, 136.608E
5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1570: 1 engagements1 in 15701571: 1 engagements1 in 15711575: 1 engagements1 in 15751577: 1 engagements1 in 15771582: 1 engagements1 in 158215701582
5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Kanegasaki, 1570Siege of Mount Hiei, 1571Battle of Nagashino, 1575Battle of Tedorigawa, 1577Battle of Yamazaki, 158215701582
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1570Siege of KanegasakiKanegasaki Castle, JapanNobunaga withdraws his forces; Successful retreat by...
29 September 1571Siege of Mount HieiMount Hiei, Japan70 km SOda victory
28 June 1575Battle of NagashinoNagashino Castle, Japan154 km EOda–Tokugawa victory
3 November 1577Battle of TedorigawaTedori River, Japan197 km NWUesugi clan victory
2 July 1582Battle of YamazakiYamazaki Castle, Japan189 km SOda clan victory; Hideyoshi begins his consolidation of...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, 投稿者がファイル作成, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.