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The Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905 - September 5, 1905. The Conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, signed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Text taken from Sydney Tyler, The Japan-Russia War, Harrisburg, The Minter Company, 1905, pp 564-568, quoted in There Are No Victors Here!: A Local Perspective on The Treaty of Portsmouth, Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth Marine Society, #8, Peter E. Randall, Publisher, ...
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The Russo-Japanese War Port Arthur: Prologue The Decisive Battles Defeat at Port Arthur Tsushima Port Arthur: Prologue Under cover of darkness the Japanese assaulted Russia's Pacific squadron lying at anchor off Port Arthur. The Russian ships were in a state of peacetime readiness and were not prepared for the unprovoked attack. Before the Russian gunners could open retaliatory fire, the best ...
www.navy.ru/history/hrn10-e.htm
Tsushima he fleets converged on the afternoon of 14 May 1905. The first ship to open fire was Admiral Rozhestvensky's flag battleship Knyaz Suvorov. Three minutes later, under the flag of Admiral Togo, the battleship Mikasa fired back Because the accompanying transports could not travel faster, Admiral Rozhestvensky had reduced his forces' cruising speed to nine knots. Admiral Togo took full ...
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This is Chapter XII from a book about the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, which was written by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden and published in 1928. Sophie was a lady in waiting to the Empress. ...
www.alexanderpalace.org/alexandra/XII.html