Title: Coolie stretcher-bearers carrying wounded Description: Coolie stretcher-bearers carrying wounded Imperial Japanese Army soldiers across a stream to the field hospital at Feng-Wang-Cheng in April 1904 during the Battle of the Yellow River two months into the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); the Battle of the Yellow River was a major victory for Japan; 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, coolies, Feng-Wang-Cheng, field hospitals, films, hospitals, 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), stretcher-bearers, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2700 x 1121 (3.03 MPixels) (2.41) Print Size: 22.9 x 9.5 cm; 9.0 x 3.7 inches File Size: 8.69 MB (9,111,990 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038236 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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