Hijikata Toshizō
Imperial troops continued to progress north, taking the castle of Wakamatsu, and making the position in Sendai untenable. On October 12, 1868, the fleet left Sendai, after having acquired two more ships ("Ōe" and the "Hōō", previously borrowed by Sendai Domain from the Shogunate), and about 1,000 more troops: former-"Bakufu" troops under Ōtori Keisuke, "Shinsengumi" troops under Hijikata Toshizō, "Yugekitai" under , as well as several more French advisors (Fortant, Marlin, Bouffier, Garde), who had reached Sendai overland.