Word: posieta
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position, commanding with its guns a future naval base which the Red Navy hopes to build at nearby Posieta...
...northeastern boundary of Korea, a country which Japan has held since 1910 when she snatched it from Russia's aspiring grasp. Near the point where the Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base...
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