Word: mikasa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harbor of Vladivostok. Togo in naval parlance "crossed the T"-led his ships in line across the top of the Russian column, with all his guns free to fire while the Russians were masked by their own ships. From the exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo saw the Russian battleships, their formation broken, turn in desperate circles, watched four of them go down. Next day he got the cruisers. Against 10,000 casualties and practically the entire Russian fleet sunk, captured or beached, Togo lost three torpedo-boats, less than 1,000 killed and wounded. Banzai...