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The Bombardment came in the aftermath of the [[Namamugi Incident]] the previous year, in which a British merchant, Charles Lennox Richardson, was killed by Satsuma samurai after failing to make way for the ''daimyô's'' entourage, as they met on a road in [[Yokohama]]. Numerous negotiations took place in the months after the incident, with tensions eventually leading to the arrival of a number of British warships in Kagoshima harbor in the seventh month of 1863. The acting British consul, [[Edward St. John Neale]], attempted for three days to negotiate some sort of settlement, but when no agreement could be reached, the ships opened fire. Engaging in combat with a number of modern steamship warships Satsuma had purchased from British merchants in [[1860]]-1863, the British ships suffered some considerable damage, but nevertheless managed to destroy much of the city before withdrawing, arriving back in Yokohama two days later. Though much of the city had been destroyed, the domainal lord, [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], claimed victory, and successfully represented to the Imperial Court that he had acted in accordance with the edict issued two months earlier by [[Emperor Komei|Emperor Kômei]] to [[joi|expel the barbarians]]. Even so, seeking peace and the continuation of trade with the British, Satsuma officials borrowed money from the shogunate to pay the British an indemnity for Richardson's murder; in the 9th month, they presented the British at Yokohama with the equivalent of 100,000 [[Mexican silver dollars]] in reparations.

The Bombardment came in the aftermath of the [[Namamugi Incident]] the previous year, in which a British merchant, Charles Lennox Richardson, was killed by Satsuma samurai after failing to make way for the ''daimyô's'' entourage, as they met on a road in [[Yokohama]]. Numerous negotiations took place in the months after the incident, with tensions eventually leading to the arrival of a number of British warships in Kagoshima harbor in the seventh month of 1863. The acting British consul, [[Edward St. John Neale]], attempted for three days to negotiate some sort of settlement, but when no agreement could be reached, the ships opened fire. Engaging in combat with a number of modern steamship warships Satsuma had purchased from British merchants in [[1860]]-1863, the British ships suffered some considerable damage, but nevertheless managed to destroy much of the city before withdrawing, arriving back in Yokohama two days later. Though much of the city had been destroyed, the domainal lord, [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], claimed victory, and successfully represented to the Imperial Court that he had acted in accordance with the edict issued two months earlier by [[Emperor Komei|Emperor Kômei]] to [[joi|expel the barbarians]]. Even so, seeking peace and the continuation of trade with the British, Satsuma officials borrowed money from the shogunate to pay the British an indemnity for Richardson's murder; in the 9th month, they presented the British at Yokohama with the equivalent of 100,000 [[Mexican silver dollars]] in reparations.

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