Russo-Japanese War
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on
Clockwise from top: Russian cruiser Pallada under fire at Port Arthur, Russian cavalry at Mukden, Russian cruiser Varyag and gunboat Korietz at Chemulpo Bay, Japanese dead at Port Arthur, Japanese infantry crossing the Yalu River
Chinese generals in Pyongyang surrender to the Japanese, October 1894.
Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. Left to right: Britain, United States, Australia, India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan.
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Lüshun Port
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Lüshun Port, formerly Port Arthur, in Lüshunkou District, Dalian, Liaoning province, China can refer to the original Lüshun Naval Port for military use or the New Lüshun Port for commercial use.
Russo-Japanese War
…the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. At the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 had ceded the Liaodong Peninsula and Port Arthur to Japan before the Triple Intervention, in which Russia, Germany, and France forced Japan to relinquish its claim. Japan feared that Russia would…
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Entering Lüshun Port from the Yellow Sea (left), a 1904 photo
Port Arthur. The inner eastern basin. Photo from the magazine Niva, 1904.
Photos from the article "Port Arthur" of Sytin's Military Encyclopaedia