Siege war
Port Arthur, Liaoyang, Mukden on land.
Mukden and Port Arthur are the land preface. The Baltic Fleet is the desperate naval sequel.
Dogger Bank is why Britain was already cold toward the voyage.
Timeline
- War opens
Port Arthur surprise; the siege war begins.
- Dogger Bank
Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers.
- Port Arthur falls
The first Pacific squadron is gone.
- Baltic Fleet enters the theatre
The last approach.
- Day action
Togo engages in the strait.
- Night torpedoes
Destroyers finish cripples.
- Surrender of remnants
Nebogatov; the fleet is finished.
- Portsmouth signed
Roosevelt mediates; Korea's fate is written in.
- Eulsa treaty
Korean protectorate -- the political landing of the naval win.
- Annexation
The longer sequel on the peninsula.
Eras
Baltic Fleet
Europe to Asia the long way.
The strait
Togo's day and night.
Peace and protectorate
Portsmouth then Eulsa.
Memory
Mikasa, Korean 1910 story, English diagrams.
Milestones
Baltic Fleet destroyed
A European battle line erased in Asian waters.
Japan as a naval great power
A 1905 fact in European chancelleries.
Korea's door forced
Protectorate as sequel.
Portsmouth without Korea is an incomplete sentence. Eulsa is the next paragraph.
1905 in Russia is also Bloody Sunday and a revolution -- the same year, not a coincidence only.