Battle of Goryokaku

Japanese: 五稜郭の戦 - ごりょうかくのたたかい

Also known as the Hakodate War. This was the last resistance of the former Shogunate army, led by Enomoto Takeaki, vice-president of the navy, against the Meiji government army. Enomoto envisioned a kind of republic, with former Shogunate officials who had lost their means of food and clothing relocating to Ezo (Hokkaido) and governing the area as a colony, with Enomoto as its president. In August 1868 (Keio 4), he fled Edo with 2,000 deserters from various domains aboard eight former Shogunate ships. On the way, he joined former senior councilor Itakura Katsuyo, Ogasawara Nagamichi, and former infantry commissioner Otori Keisuke in Sendai, and landed in Ezo in October. He then expelled the Hakodate governor, seized Matsumae Castle and Esashi, and took control of Ezo at the end of October. In May of the following year, the government forces, including the addition of state-of-the-art ships purchased from the United States, overwhelmed Enomoto's forces, forcing Enomoto and his men to leave Goryokaku, where they had been holed up, and surrender. This battle marked the end of the Boshin War.
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Japanese:

箱館戦争とも。旧幕府海軍副総裁榎本武揚を中心とする旧幕府軍の明治新政府軍に対する最後の抗戦。衣食の途(みち)を失った旧幕臣を蝦夷(えぞ)地（北海道）に移住させ，その開拓統治によって彼を総裁とする一種の共和国を構想した榎本は，1868年（慶応４年）８月，旧幕艦８隻に諸藩脱走兵2000人を分乗させ江戸を脱走，途中仙台で前老中板倉勝静(かつきよ)，小笠原長行(ながみち)，前歩兵奉行大鳥圭介らを加え，10月蝦夷地に上陸。次いで箱館府知事を追放，松前城・江差(えさし)を奪取して10月末に蝦夷地を手中にした。翌年５月米国より購入の新鋭艦を加えた政府軍は榎本軍を圧倒，榎本らは立てこもっていた五稜郭を出て投降。この戦いを最後に戊辰(ぼしん)戦争は終結。
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