Siege of Port Arthur
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The siege of Port Arthur was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War.
Russian 500-pound shell bursting near the Japanese siege guns, near Port Arthur
The siege of Port Arthur – Russian batteries against Togo (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904)
Japanese 11-inch howitzers during the siege of Port Arthur
203 Meter Hill, December 14, 1904
Russo-Japanese War
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major theatres of military operations were in the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria, the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
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.
Kurino Shin'ichirō