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Battle of Port Arthur: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date February 2, 1904 - August 9, 1904
Location China • Lüshun
Participants Japan • Russia
Context Russo-Japanese War

Photos

Battle of Port Arthur
attack on Port Arthur
Russian battleship Retvizan
Battle of Port Arthur
Black and white photo showing several stranded Russian battleships in the harbor at Port Arthur, with dockyards and buildings in the foreground and hills in the background.
A group of Russian soldiers in uniform stand around a large six-inch howitzer positioned in a sandbagged trench during the defense of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War.
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Timeline

Battle of Port Arthur
Battle of Port Arthur
February 2, 1904 - August 9, 1904
Battleships at Port Arthur
Battle of the Yellow Sea
August 10, 1904
Russian soldiers and horse-drawn carts crowd a street as smoke rises from burning buildings in Mukden, Manchuria, during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.
Battle of Mukden
February 20, 1905 - March 10, 1905
Historical map showing the main locations of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) in East Asia. The map highlights battles at Port Arthur, Mukden, Liaoyang, and Tsushima, as well as the Trans-Siberian Railroad route through Siberia and Manchuria. It includes the regions of Manchuria, Korea, the Empire of Japan, and nearby seas, with country boundaries as they were in 1904-1905.
Battle of Tsushima
May 27, 1905 - May 29, 1905

Key People

Tōgō Heihachirō
Tōgō Heihachirō
Japanese admiral

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