Battle of Miyako Bay
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The Battle of Miyako Bay was a naval action on 6 May 1869, in which samurai loyalists of the former Tokugawa shogunate under the flag of the newly formed Republic of Ezo failed to take over the Kōtets
The ironclad Kōtetsu
The wreckage of the Takao, pursued by steamships of the Imperial Navy
Tōgō Heihachirō
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Tōgō Heihachirō was a Japanese naval officer who served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the
Battle of Miyako Bay
…eight Imperial ships: Kōtetsu, Kasuga, three small corvettes and three transport ships. Future commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Tōgō Heihachirō was an officer on Kasuga at this time. Anticipating that the Imperial fleet was en route to invade Ezo, Enomoto Takeaki decided to dispatch his three…
Tōgō Heihachirō
Monument recording site of birthplace in Kagoshima
Officers of the Japanese warship Kasuga in August 1869. Third-class officer Tōgō is dressed in white, top right.
Tōgō during his studies in Europe, in 1877