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Maps, portrayals and rituals of Battle of Tsushima.

Educational history. Casualty figures are documented ranges. This is not operational advice, a ranking of nations, or a how-to for weapons or coups.

The strait between Korea and Kyushu -- label Busan and Tsushima island.

The voyage track from the Baltic as an inset of exhaustion.

Maps

Siege war

1904 in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan: Port Arthur, Liaoyang, Mukden on land. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Baltic Fleet

Voyage in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan: Europe to Asia the long way. A memory map, not a present overlay.

The strait

27-28 May 1905 in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan: Togo's day and night. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Peace and protectorate

Sep-Nov 1905 in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan: Portsmouth then Eulsa. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Memory

After in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan: Mikasa, Korean 1910 story, English diagrams. A memory map, not a present overlay.

Portrayals

Togo Heihachiro biographies

The usual English doorway into Battle of Tsushima: The Nelson of Japanese (and English naval) memory. His turn is the diagram; his war also enabled a protectorate.

Zinovy Rozhestvensky biographies

The paired doorway: Brought a tired fleet around the world and into a prepared enemy. Wounded and captured.

School survey chapters

Where Battle of Tsushima (27-28 May 1905) is a paragraph or a unit in US/UK/AU/CA -- often thinner than Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan local hours.

Local museums / sites in Tsushima Strait

Thicker than the English paragraph. Memory is the usual late pilgrimage caption.

Feature film / television

If Battle of Tsushima has a visual canon, it probably outruns the monographs. Treat film as memory, not as a log.

Korean civic halls and curricula

Battle of Tsushima belongs in Seoul classrooms and the War Memorial circuit -- a civic file, not an English afterthought.

Rituals

1904-02 / 1910 dates

The usual ritual poles of Battle of Tsushima: War opens and Annexation.

Museum and cemetery wreaths

Official and family rites at sites in Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan. Nikolai Nebogatov is often the civilian or corrective name on the plaque.

Classroom minutes

Where Battle of Tsushima is on the syllabus -- in Anglophone schools often beside 11 November or a Second World War unit, not always beside Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan's own calendar.

Sayings

Crossing the T

Baltic Fleet voyage

Baltic Fleet destroyed

"Battle of Tsushima" as shorthand

Mikasa at Yokosuka and Korean 1905-10 museum rooms are the two poles.

English naval diagrams that omit Korea are incomplete maps.

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