Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines
Location: Japan
Period/ Conflict: Shimonoseki Campaign
Year: 1863
Date/s: 20 July – 14 August 1863, 5–6 September 1864
The Shimonoseki Campaign was a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan. Read More/ Web Link: Wikipedia