Jules Brunet, The Real ‘Last Samurai’ Who Resigned From The French Military To Fight For The Shogunate
Jules Brunet was sent to Japan to train their military in Western tactics before fighting for the samurai against Meiji Imperialists during the Boshin War. Not many people know the true story ofThe Last Samurai , the wholesale Tom Cruise epic of 2003 . His part , the noble Captain Algren , was actually primarily ground on a real person : the Gallic officer Jules Brunet . Brunet was sent to Japan to train soldier on how to apply New weapons and tactics ....