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From the Yalu to Port Arthur

by William Maxwell

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The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was historically significant. It was the first time that an Asian power decisively defeated a modern European nation, shattering long-held Western assumptions about racial and military superiority. The war humiliated Tsarist Russia, exposing the weakness and inefficiency of the autocracy and directly leading to the Russian Revolution of 1905. And Japan's victory emboldened its leaders to pursue a militaristic imperial policy in Asia which would, over the following decades, culminate in Japan’s confrontation with Western powers in the Pacific War of 1941. "Fr...

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