in the 1869 Battle of Hakodate in Japan, French soldiers fought side-by-side with rebel samurai against the newly formed Imperial government, in an episode reminiscent of the movie The Last Samurai?
Question 2: The
________ in
particular was formally established in July 1869, and incorporated
many of the combatants and ships which had participated in the
Battle of Hakodate.
Question 3: In the meantime, an Imperial fleet had been rapidly constituted
around the ironclad warshipKōtetsu, which had been purchased
by the ________ from the United States.
Question 4: This French
involvement is part of the broader, and often disastrous, foreign
activity of the French Empire under Napoleon III, and
followed the ________.
Question 5: Although the modernization of Japan is generally explained as
starting with the Meiji period (1868), it actually started
significantly earlier from around 1853 during the final years of
the Tokugawa shogunate (the ________).
Question 6: The future admiral Togo Heihachiro,
hero of the 1905 ________, participated to
the battle as a gunner onboard the paddle steam warship Kasuga.