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Russo-Japanese War: The 18,000-mile voyage
This is the final post of my series on the Russo-Japanese War. I have presented only topics that had a particular appeal to me, and there are many events of the war I have passed by: the battles of Liaoyang … Continue reading
Russo-Japanese War: Human Bullets
I would like to introduce you to Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai of the Imperial Japanese Army.* Having landed on the Liaodong Peninsula with General Oku Yasukata’s 2nd Army, Sakurai’s unit arrived just barely too late for a hard-won Japanese victory at … Continue reading
Russo-Japanese War: Strange journey of the “Novik”
August 1904. General Nogi Maresuke, with the Japanese 3rd Army, besieges Port Arthur. His assault columns make massive rushes against the garrison’s defense lines. The Japanese Naval Brigade brings in two 4.7″ howitzers and pounds the Russian fleet as the … Continue reading
Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Yalu River
“Unless I very much mistake, this small nation, Eastern to the backbone, is about to testify by the mouth of her cannon that the six Great Powers are not all the world but only a part of it.”* —General Sir … Continue reading
Russo-Japanese War: Torpedoes at Port Arthur
This is part of a series about the Russo-Japanese War. On February 6, 1904, a Japanese squadron sailed from its base at Sasebo on the southwest coast, near Nagasaki. They were to make a surprise attack on the Russian fleet … Continue reading
Russo-Japanese War: Armies and attitudes
This continues a series about the Russo-Japanese War. For the information in this post, I owe much to the excellent book, The Russo-Japanese War: 1904-05, by A. Ivanov and P. Jowett.* The two armies—and navies—about to face off against each … Continue reading
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China and the Trans-Siberian Railway
This is the first of several posts about the Trans-Siberian. I have a book titled The World’s Great Railways by G. Gibbard Jackson, published 1927.* It was a source of delight for my father as a boy. He turned its … Continue reading
Finnish Civil War: The Background
This is the first of a two-part series on the Finnish Civil War. Once upon a time there was a country of vast boreal forests whose scattered inhabitants spoke a strange tongue more closely related to Hungarian than to Scandinavian … Continue reading
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Tagged February Revolution, Finnish Civil War, Finnish language, Finnish Social Democrats, History of Finland, October Revolution, Red Guards, Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Brest-Livotsk, Tsar Nikolas, Vladimir Lenin, White Guards
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1870 to 1918 