Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War

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The Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War was the maritime and coastal zone in East Asia where Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan fought major naval and amphibious campaigns for control of the seas and key ports between 1904 and 1905.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf military theater
theater of war
commandedBy Stepan Makarov
Tōgō Heihachirō NERFINISHED
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
conflictBetween Empire of Japan
Russian Empire
endTime 1905
hasKeyLocation Chemulpo (Incheon) NERFINISHED
Korea Strait
Liaodong Peninsula
Port Arthur
Sakhalin Island
Tsushima Strait
Vladivostok
hasMajorBelligerent Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Russian Navy
hasMajorCampaign Battle of Chemulpo Bay
Battle of Tsushima
Battle of the Yellow Sea
Port Arthur campaign
Sakhalin invasion
blockade of Port Arthur
operations in the Korea Strait
hasObjective control of key ports in Manchuria and Korea
control of sea lines of communication in East Asia
neutralization of Russian Pacific Fleet
hasOutcome decisive Japanese naval superiority
decisive defeat of the Russian Baltic Fleet at Tsushima
destruction of most of the Russian Pacific Fleet
historicalPeriod early 20th century
involves amphibious operations
blockade operations
coastal artillery
minelaying
naval warfare
locatedIn East Asia
Korea Bay
Pacific Ocean
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
coastal waters of Japan
coastal waters of Korea
coastal waters of Manchuria
partOf Russo-Japanese War
relatedTo decline of Russian influence in East Asia
development of modern naval warfare
rise of Japan as a naval power
startTime 1904

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Battle of the Yellow Sea
theater
Russian Pacific Squadron ("Russo-Japanese War naval theatre")
theaterOfWar

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