At the final battle Algren tells Katsomoto about the battle at Thermopylae, and says that 300 brave Greeks held off an army of 1 million Persians. This is only partially true; there were 300 Spartans, but the Persian invasion force is believed to have had 150,000 soldiers. Of course, stories from ancient times describe the brave Spartans as heroes who stood up against 1 million Persians, and at the time of the movie it might still have been thought so. In addition, while the 300 were killed by the Persians (as they knew would happen), their stand inspired the Greek states to rally against, go to war versus, and eventually prevent an attempted Persian conquest of Europe. It's not unreasonable for Algren to describe the Spartan stand as a victory, not least because of the parallels between what happened at Thermopylae and the samurai's willingness to die in service of the Emperor - along with the fact that Katsumoto's stand does result in posthumous victories (the American treaty is rejected and the Emperor angrily confiscates Omura's entire fortune).
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