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Title: Military transport wagons

Description: Military transport wagons in front of the Imperial Russian Army headquarters at Vladivostok, Russia in April 1904, early in 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); 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: Chemulpo, Korea, Chenampo, Korea, films, Imperial Russia, Imperial Russian Army, infantry, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Lake Baikal, Russia, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Siberia, Russia, supply wagons, Vladivostok, Russia, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s.