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 | | Meanwhile, the leader of the shogun's navy, Enomoto Takeaki, refused to surrender his ships and escaped north with the remnants of the navy (eight steam warships: Kaiten, Banryū, Chiyodagata, Chōgei, Kaiyō Maru, Kanrin Maru, Mikaho and Shinsoku), and 2,000 members of the navy, in the hope of staging a counter-attack together with the northern daimyo. |
 | | Following defeat on Honshū, Enomoto Takeaki fled to Hokkaidō with the remnants of the navy and his handful of French advisers. |
 | | In the case of Enomoto Takeaki, former leader of the pro-shogunate forces, who would later serve as envoy to Russia and China and as education minister. |
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