Word: tsushima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the 20th anniversary of his great victory, Heihachiro Togo lay in his little Tokyo house, dying of cancer of the throat. For years Admiral Togo has been a living myth to the people of Japan, appearing publicly only once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits...
...that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with the possibility of being forced into an engagement on the way. With his fleet drydocked, scraped, painted, remunitioned and in review order, Admiral Togo waited confidently by the 122-mile Straits of Tsushima at the entrance to the Japan...
...cruisers, five destroyers and five auxiliary ships were at the bottom of the Japan Sea. Four more battleships and two hospital ships had surrendered. Four thousand Russians were killed or drowned and 7,000 more surrendered. Japanese losses were three torpedo boats, 116 killed, 538 wounded. The Battle of Tsushima Straits decided the naval mastery of the Eastern Pacific, sweeping Russia from the sea and placing Japan overnight among the world's great powers. Never before or since has the price of a great naval victory been so cheap...