Siege of Kanegasaki (1570)
| Siege of Kanegasaki (1570) | |||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Oda clan forces Tokugawa clan forces |
Asakura clan forces Azai clan forces Rokkaku clan forces Ikkō-ikki forces | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Oda Nobunaga Tokugawa Ieyasu Hashiba Hideyoshi Sassa Narimasa Maeda Toshiie Ikeda Katsumasa Akechi Mitsuhide |
Castle garrison: Maeba Yoshitsugu Relief forces: Asakura Kagetake Azai Nagamasa Rokkaku Yoshikata | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 30,000 | 24,500 | ||||||
The 1570 siege of Kanegasaki (金ヶ崎の戦い, Kanegasaki no Tatakai) took place during Oda Nobunaga's conflict with the Asakura clan in Echizen Province, which was allied with Azai Nagamasa.