Russian-Japanese War

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made themselves. Russia
was unable to take Japan seriously even though they

had many reports on
how large the Japanese naval and military forces were.

Unfortunately,
Russia's constant penetration into Korea and Manchuria

continued unabated
despite the presence of numbers of Japanese immagrants

and traders.

Russia
had succeeded in replacing the now defunct Chinese influence with

her own.
Russia now began taking over the administrative departments and had

their
officers train the Korean army to fight on their side.

In April, May, and
June of 1903, Russian's had told the Japanese that they

would move out
of China. They did not and continued to occupy the land. In

July of the
that same year, the Japanese Ambassador proposed that Russia and

Japan
were to recognize the independance of China and Korea. Both nations

were
to rcognize preponderance, the Japanese in Korea balanced by russians in


Manchuria. They were to recall their troops from their respective ...

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negotiations.

Around
11:00pm the Shiralaimo, the leading Japanese destroyer, came

within sight
of the two patrolling Russian destroyers, the Pastoropin and the

Bezstrashini.
To the surprise of the Japanese, the two ships turned around and

headed
back to Port Arthur so the captains could report to the Russian Admiral


Stark. At this time there was no fighting going on at all. However, as the
ships

turned to go and make their report, the Japanese began to fire at
the same time

that the two Russian destroyers were making their report.

The
Pollada was the first Russian ship to go down, they were hit mid ship

and
one of the coal tankers caught on fire. The Retvizan ...

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