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TIL the history of Jules Brunet , The historic figure who inspired "the last samurai ". In september 1868 this decorated captain who was a painter and a graduate of Saint-Cyr Polythecnique school decided to unofficially stay in Japan and Fight with the Shogun Forces against the Meiji Empire .

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