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Four or so Russian ships visited the site in the 4th and 5th months of that year, but by the end of the 5th month, the Russians dismantled the camp. [[Hori Toshihiro]] and [[Muragaki Norimasa]], shogunate officials assigned to oversee matters in [[Ezo]], visited the site the following month, on 6/12, as they surveyed the area in preparation for negotiations with the Russians as to a formal Japan-Russia border on Sakhalin. Russian individuals came ashore there at least one more time before the end of that year, on 7/10, leaving the following day.

Four or so Russian ships visited the site in the 4th and 5th months of that year, but by the end of the 5th month, the Russians dismantled the camp. [[Hori Toshihiro]] and [[Muragaki Norimasa]], shogunate officials assigned to oversee matters in [[Ezo]], visited the site the following month, on 6/12, as they surveyed the area in preparation for negotiations with the Russians as to a formal Japan-Russia border on Sakhalin. Russian individuals came ashore there at least one more time before the end of that year, on 7/10, leaving the following day.

The following year, in [[1855]]/2, the shogunate ordered Matsumae Takahiro to have what remained of the encampment destroyed.

The following year, in [[1855]]/2, the shogunate ordered Matsumae Takahiro to have what remained of the encampment destroyed. A few months later, towards the end of the 5th month, three British and two French warships came to Kushun kotan, performed some reconnaissance of the area, and then left on 5/27. On 5/29, Matsumae troops captured several sailors who had jumped ship, and set off to deliver them to [[Hakodate]]. Meanwhile, on 5/20, Matsumae had the encampment destroyed.

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==References==

==References==

*Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 469, 580, 595, 604, 613, 622.

*Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 469, 580, 595, 604, 613, 622.

*Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 12.

*Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 12, 68.

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