Identifier: cu31924071165637 (find matches)
Title: The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: Tokyo : Kindodo-shosekikabushiki-kaisha (The Kinkodo publishing co)
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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The Battle off Port Arthur, present date. Russia has so long posedas one of the strongest nations in theworld, that outside spectators, dazzledby her magnificence,,.j^neYer realizedthe possibility of Japanese successes ina war against her. But our arms have shown thatour strength has been entirely misunder-stood. When at the commencementof the hostilities our Squadrons wontheir first successes at Chemulpo, and superiority on the sea, yet our landarmies would have no chance .againstthe armies of trained men which Russiacould put in the field. All eyes weredirected therefore to the engagementwhich was to take jjlace at the RiverYalu, and when, as the event showed,our armies gained a great victorythere, it was at length seen that theJapanese soldier was more than a match in bravery, discipline, endur-
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General Oku and his Staff Officers advancing to Liao-yang.
THE SPIRIT ANIMATING OUR SOLDIERS. 585
ance, and every other essential virtue of a soldier, for the much praised Russianinfantry man or Cossack. Since theYalu our armies have met the Russianson many a field, with results uniformlyfavourable to our arms, and the latestof these engagements has been thebattle of Liaoyang, a fierce conflictwhich has been, not without reason, aswe take it, compared with the greatfight of Sedan in the Franco-GermanWar. We have here no intention of dis-cussing the strategy and tactics adopt-ed by the two opposing generals:siiffice it to say that it was GeneralKuropatkins intention to make theutmost use of the advantageous po- away all the advantages we had hith-erto gained by our repeated successes.It was with a view to this that he hadconcentrated the whole of his forces atLiaoyang, and had strongly entrench-ed himself behind a chain of strongdefensive works of all kinds. In theconflict our forces were not much morenum

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