Title: Japanese Fleet Admiral Togo Description: Japanese Fleet Admiral Togo (Koshaku Togo Heihachiro; January 28, 1848-May 30, 1934), a brilliant Japanese naval strategist and fighter whose torpedo attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Manchuria, Imperial Russia's stronghold on the Yellow Sea, started the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); one of Japan's greatest naval heroes, he was called by Western journalists "the Nelson of the East," referring to Great Britain's Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (September 29, 1758-October 21, 1805) a hero of the Napoleonic Wars and the victorious Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 in which he was killed in action; The Russo-Japanese War resulted from a long-standing aggressive policy of Russian Czar Nicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov; May 18, 1868-July 17, 1918) in the Far East that led to friction with Japanese Emperor Mutsuhito (AKA: The Meiji Emperor or The Mikado; November 3, 1852-July 30, 1912); Japanese Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Togo (Togo Heihachiro; January 27, 1848-May 30, 1934) sent torpedo boats to attack the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Manchuria, Imperial Russia's stronghold on the Yellow Sea, on February 8-9, 1904, and also Russian ships across Korea Bay at Chemulpo Harbor in what today is Inchon, Korea, and war was declared two days later; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks; 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: admirals, films, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese admirals, Japanese Empire, Japanese Imperial Navy, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Military leaders, Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1473 (1.77 MPixels) (1.23) Print Size: 10.2 x 12.5 cm; 4.0 x 4.9 inches File Size: 5.09 MB (5,336,096 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038023 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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