Togo Heihachiro
The Nelson of Japanese (and English naval) memory. His turn is the diagram; his war also enabled a protectorate.
Day
3
Flag
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After
3
Togo and Mikasa are the Japanese/English pair. Rozhestvensky is the tragic voyage. An Jung-geun is the Korean political icon of the sequel.
Roosevelt at Portsmouth is the US diplomatic icon.
People
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
Brought a tired fleet around the world and into a prepared enemy. Wounded and captured.
Voyage
3
Day
3
After
3
Nicholas II
The war and 1905 revolution share a year. Tsushima was a throne shock.
War
3
Year
3
End
3
Theodore Roosevelt
Portsmouth won him a Nobel and wrote Japan into Korea -- a US diplomatic hinge.
Treaty
3
Prize
3
Korea
3
Ito Hirobumi
Resident-general in Korea after Eulsa -- the political face of the naval sequel. Assassinated in 1909 by An Jung-geun.
Korea
3
Death
3
Link
3
An Jung-geun
Killed Ito in Harbin in 1909 -- a Korean icon of resistance to the order Tsushima helped make. Teach him beside Togo, not instead of the battle facts.
Act
3
Target
3
Memory
3
Nikolai Nebogatov
Surrendered remnants on 28 May -- a court-martial name in Russian memory.
Act
3
Day
3
After
3
Heihachiro's staff -- Akiyama
Akiyama Saneyuki is the staff-college name behind Togo in many Japanese accounts.
Role
3
Fleet
3
Fame
3
Debate
Was the T the decision, or the voyage?
Both: Togo fought well; Rozhestvensky arrived already half-lost. Serious accounts keep the cruise in the paragraph.
Is Tsushima Japan's Trafalgar?
A flattering English analogy that hides the Korean protectorate. Use it only to retire it.
Do not hang Togo without hanging Eulsa.
Trafalgar talk should last one sentence, then return to Busan's water.