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Satsuma Rebellion

Years: 1877 - 1877

The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government from 1877-01-29 to 1877-09-24, 11 years into the Meiji Era, is the last, and the most serious, of a series of armed uprisings against the new government.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)