shooting-down

Updated: July 16, 2026

For the expedition to Formosa furnished employment for the Satsuma samurai, and, at the same time, assured the Ryukyu islanders that Japan was prepared to protect them. The campaign in Formosa proved a very tame affair. It amounted to the shooting-down of a few semi-savages.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era