Title: Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army's 14th Infantry Description: Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army's 14th Infantry wait on the frozen sand beside a highway of a mud and slush over which they marched 130 miles northward from Seoul, Korea, awaiting a bridge to be built by army engineers to take them to Ping Yang, Korea, in March 1904 during the early days of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); the 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, on February 8, 1904 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: Battle of Chemulpo, Korea, China, films, highways, Imperial Japan, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Ping Yang, Korea, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Navy, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Seoul, Korea, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2550 x 2808 (7.16 MPixels) (1.10) Print Size: 21.6 x 23.8 cm; 8.5 x 9.4 inches File Size: 20.52 MB (21,519,694 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038121 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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