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Richardson was killed, Clarke badly wounded, Marshall a little less so; only Mrs. Borrodaile escaped relatively unharmed. Richardson is said to have managed to ride away a short distance before falling from his horse and being set upon by a number of samurai.<ref name=Vaporis/> What may have been seen by the samurai as a relatively honorable act of mercy, killing Richardson once he was already on the ground, to spare him further suffering, was represented in British sources of the time as excessively cruel, barbaric, and dishonorable.<ref name=daniels1467/>

Richardson was killed, Clarke badly wounded, Marshall a little less so; only Mrs. Borrodaile escaped relatively unharmed. Richardson is said to have managed to ride away a short distance before falling from his horse and being set upon by a number of samurai.<ref name=Vaporis/> What may have been seen by the samurai as a relatively honorable act of mercy, killing Richardson once he was already on the ground, to spare him further suffering, was represented in British sources of the time as excessively cruel, barbaric, and dishonorable.<ref name=daniels1467/>

While the other three escaped, the samurai wrapped Richardson's body in a straw mat and deposited it next to a pine tree on the roadside.<ref name=Vaporis/>

While the other three escaped, the two men to the American Legation,<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyo tachi'', Futagawa juku honjin shiryokan (1996), 81.</ref> the samurai wrapped Richardson's body in a straw mat and deposited it next to a pine tree on the roadside.<ref name=Vaporis/>

==Aftermath==

==Aftermath==