 They were welcomed on their arrival by Léon Roches and the commander of the French Far East Squadron Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze.The military mission was able to train an elite corps of "shōgun" Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the Denshūtai, for a little more than one year, before the Tokugawa shogunate lost to the Imperial forces in 1868 in the Boshin War.The French military mission was then ordered to leave Japan by decree of the newly installed Meiji Emperor in October 1868.