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- 01Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection at noon on October 21, 1600 swung 30,000 men to Tokugawa's side mid-battle.
- 02The battle lasted just six hours; it ended 150 years of civil war in Japan.
- 03Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory established a shogunate that closed Japan to the outside world until 1853.