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Enomoto Takeaki
Enomoto Takeaki was a Japanese admiral of the Tokugawa shogunate who refused to surrender its fleet in 1868 and sailed north to Hokkaido. There he was elected president of the Republic of Ezo in 1869 and held out until he surrendered Goryōkaku after the Battle of Hakodate. Pardoned, he later served the Meiji government as a diplomat and minister, negotiating the Treaty of Saint Petersburg with Russia in 1875.
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