With the Japanese on the Yalu.; bound with Manual of Instruction in Field Works for the Japanese Infantry (6th Edition, 1902.) Translated from the Russian by the General Staff, War Office, and The Roles of Cavalry in Modern War by Lieut.-General of Cavalry Von Pelet-Narvonne [Translated from the "Internationale Revue uber die gesamten Armeen und Flotten" nach "Die Zeit".], and The Struggle for the Pacific. extract from the French of Mons. Rene Pinon, Translated by permission of the Author by Major J. L. J. Clarke, East Yorkshire Regiments, D.A.A.G. 3rd Army Corps, and A Brief Historical Sketch of the Irish Infantry Regiment of Dillon and the Irish Stuart Regiments in the Service of France, 1690-1791, and Japanese Hospital-Ships. by Dr. Georges Varenne, Surgeon of the French Army, Translated by permission from the archives de Medecine Navale by Fleet Surgeon C. Marsh Beadness, R. N.
London: Royal United Services Institute, 1905. Disbound from a issue of volume XLIX. Wraps. Pages 269-286, [1], Illustrations, pages 287-292, pages 293-301 [partial, To be continued], pages. 302- 307 [continued from previous issue and to be continued], pages 308-311, [1], and pages [679], 680-695, [1], folding plate 6 (Figures 1 -35) and folding plate 7 (Figures 36-62). The Japanese Manual was translated from the Japanese into Russian by Colonel Adabash. The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), sometimes still referred to by its pre-2004 name, the Royal United Service Institution, is a British defence and security think tank. It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, Sir Arthur Wellesley. RUSI was founded in 1831 – making it the oldest defence and security think tank in the world. Its original mission was to study naval and military science. Subsequently, Commander Henry Downes, Royal Navy, assembled a group with a view to forming a committee for action, to which King George's First ADC was commanded to convey "His Majesty's gracious and high approbation of the undertaking and of the principles on which it is proposed to conduct it", which were stated to be suitable for "a strictly scientific and professional society. On 25 June 1831 a resolution that the institution be established was put by the future Field Marshal Viscount Hardinge and seconded by the future Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, the famous hydrographer. The first name adopted was the Naval and Military Museum: this was altered in 1839 to the United Service Institution, and in 1860 to the Royal United Service Institution by a royal charter of incorporation. The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of military operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. Russia sought a warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean both for its navy and for maritime trade. Vladivostok remained ice-free and operational only during the summer; Port Arthur, a naval base in Liaodong Province leased to Russia by the Qing dynasty of China from 1897, was operational year round. Since the end of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japan feared Russian encroachment on its plans to create a sphere of influence in Korea and Manchuria. Russia had demonstrated an expansionist policy east of the Urals in Siberia and the Far East from the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century. Seeing Russia as a rival, Japan offered to recognize Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of Korea being within the Japanese sphere of influence. Russia refused and demanded the establishment of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan in Korea north of the 39th parallel. The Japanese government perceived a threat to their plans for expansion into mainland Asia and chose to go to war. After negotiations broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy opened hostilities in a surprise attack on 9 February 1904 by attacking the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur, China. Although Russia suffered a number of defeats, Emperor Nicholas II was convinced that Russia could win if it fought on; he chose to remain engaged in the war and wait for the outcomes of certain key naval battles. After the hope of victory was quelled, he continued the war to preserve the dignity of Russia by averting a "humiliating peace". Russia ignored Japan's willingness early on to agree to an armistice and rejected the idea of bringing the dispute to the Arbitration Court at The Hague. The war eventually concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth (5 September 1905), mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt. The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised international observers and transformed the balance of power in both East Asia and Eastern Europe, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power and Russia's decline in prestige and influence in Eastern Europe. The loss of life without victory and the humiliating defeat for the Russian Empire contributed to growing domestic unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and accelerated the disintegration of the Russian autocracy. The war also marked the first victory of an Asian country against a Western power in modern time. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Hospital-Ships, Field Works, Military Manuals, Japanese Infantry, Russo-Japanese War, Cavalry, Von Pelet-Marvaone, Rene Pinon, Irish Stuart Regiment, Marsh Beadness, RUSI, Korea, Yalu River
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