    
Title: Imperial Japanese Army engineers Description: Imperial Japanese Army engineers bridging the Ai River, a tributary of the Yellow River in China the day before the Battle of Yellow River in April 1904, two months into the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); the Battle of the Yellow River was a major victory for the Japanese; the war began with pre-emptive attacks by the Japan Navy on Imperial Russian Navy ships at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and Chemulpo Harbor, Korea on February 8-9, 1904; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks in 1905; Russia ceded to Japan the Liaodong Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin; Japan gained further interests in Korea and annexed the former kingdom in 1910; Russia and Japan promised to evacuate Manchuria in favor of China; two Japanese movies tell about the war: Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957), and Battle of Japan Sea (1969); the demise of the czar and his family is told in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971 UK films); Category: Russo-Japanese War Keywords: Ai River, China, bridges, Chemulpo, Korea, Chenampo, Korea, engineers, films, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2700 x 1205 (3.25 MPixels) (2.24) Print Size: 22.9 x 10.2 cm; 9.0 x 4.0 inches File Size: 9.34 MB (9,790,766 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038224 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
