Both Shogun Iemochi, then Emperor Kōmei, unexpectedly…

January 1867 CE

Both Shogun Iemochi, then Emperor Kōmei, unexpectedly die in late 1866 and early 1867, respectively succeeded by Yoshinobu and Kōmei’s second son, Mutsuhito, as Emperor Meiji.

These events make a truce inevitable.

In January 1867, a French military mission arrives to reorganize the shogunal army and create the Denshūtai elite force, and an order is placed with the United States to buy the French-built ironclad warship CSS Stonewall, a relic of the American Civil War.

Due to the Western powers' declared neutrality, the Americans refuse to release the ship, but once neutrality is lifted, the imperial faction obtains the vessel, which they will employ in engagements in Hakodate under the name Kōtetsu (literally "Ironclad").

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