westward-marching

Updated: May 13, 2025

It left the flank of the westward-marching troops constantly exposed to attack from the coast where the Taira fleet had full command of the sea; it invited enterprises against the rear of the troops from the enemy's position at Yashima in Shikoku, and it assumed the possibility of crossing the Strait of Shimonoseki in the presence of a greatly superior naval force.

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