✦ History

Russo-Japanese War

February 8, 1904 – September 5, 1905

Result Japanese victory

Ended by Treaty of Portsmouth

1904-1905 war between Russia and Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Japan opened with a surprise attack at Port Arthur, won at Mukden, and destroyed the Baltic Fleet at Tsushima. The Roosevelt-mediated Treaty of Portsmouth recognized Japan's interests in Korea and awarded it the Liaodong lease, the South Manchuria Railway, and southern Sakhalin; Japan's victory made it a great power.

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Battles 19

February 8–9, 1904
Battle of Port Arthur Battle of Port Arthur Dewa Shigetō, Kamimura Hikonojō, Nogi Maresuke
February 9, 1904
Battle of Chemulpo Bay Japanese victory Jemulpo
April 30 – May 1, 1904
Battle of the Yalu River Japanese victory Battle of the Yalu River Kuroki Tamemoto, Mikhail Zasulich, Nikolai Kashtalinsky
May 24–26, 1904
Battle of Nanshan Japanese victory Battle of Nanshan Oku Yasukata, Anatoly Stessel, Mitrofan Nadein
June 14–15, 1904
Battle of Te-li-ssu Japanese victory Battle of Te-li-ssu Oku Yasukata, Georg von Stackelberg, Pavel Mishchenko
June 15, 1904
Hitachi Maru Incident Russian victory Tsushima Strait
July 17, 1904
Battle of Motien Pass Japanese victory Liaodong Peninsula Kuroki Tamemoto
July 24–25, 1904
Battle of Tashihchiao Japanese victory Battle of Tashihchiao Oku Yasukata, Georg von Stackelberg, Nikolai Zarubaev
July 31, 1904
Battle of Hsimucheng Japanese victory Liaoyang Mikhail Zasulich
August 1, 1904 – January 2, 1905
Siege of Port Arthur Japanese victory Siege of Port Arthur Roman Kondratenko, Anatoly Stessel, Kodama Gentarō
August 10, 1904
Battle of the Yellow Sea Battle of the Yellow Sea Dewa Shigetō, Pavel Petrovich Ukhtomsky, Tōgō Heihachirō
August 14, 1904
Battle off Ulsan Japanese victory Battle off Ulsan Kamimura Hikonojō, Karl Jessen
August 20, 1904
Battle of Korsakov Japanese victory Korsakov Mikhail Fedorovich von Schultz
August 25 – September 5, 1904
Battle of Liaoyang Japanese victory Battle of Liaoyang Ōyama Iwao, Alexei Kuropatkin, Kuroki Tamemoto
October 5–17, 1904
Battle of Shaho Battle of Shaho Ōyama Iwao, Alexei Kuropatkin, Kuroki Tamemoto
January 25–29, 1905
Battle of Sandepu Inconclusive Battle of Sandepu Ōyama Iwao, Alexei Kuropatkin, Oku Yasukata
February 20 – March 10, 1905
Battle of Mukden Japanese victory Mukden Ōyama Iwao, Alexei Kuropatkin, Kuroki Tamemoto
May 27–28, 1905
Battle of Tsushima Japanese victory Battle of Tsushima Kamimura Hikonojō, Nikolai Nebogatov, Tōgō Heihachirō
July 7–31, 1905
Japanese invasion of Sakhalin Japanese victory Sakhalin Kataoka Shichirō

Key commanders

Japan 15

Emperor Meiji belligerent leader Ōyama Iwao Yamagata Aritomo belligerent leader Yamamoto Gonnohyōe belligerent leader Terauchi Masatake belligerent leader Kuroki Tamemoto military commander Kodama Gentarō military commander Nogi Maresuke military commander Oku Yasukata military commander Dewa Shigetō military commander Kamimura Hikonojō military commander Tōgō Heihachirō military commander Ijichi Kōsuke military commander Tatsumi Naofumi military commander Kataoka Shichirō military commander

Russia 25

Nicholas II of Russia belligerent leader Alexei Kuropatkin belligerent leader Roman Kondratenko belligerent leader Anatoly Stessel military commander Mikhail Zasulich military commander Oskar Gripenberg military commander Nikolai Linevich military commander Alexander von Kaulbars military commander Oskar Victorovich Stark military commander Wilgelm Vitgeft military commander Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev military commander Nikolai Kashtalinsky military commander Mitrofan Nadein military commander Alexander Fok military commander Ali-Agha Shikhlinski military commander Georg von Stackelberg military commander Pavel Mishchenko military commander Aleksandr Gerngross military commander Nikolai Zarubaev military commander Pavel Petrovich Ukhtomsky military commander Karl Jessen military commander Nikolai Nebogatov military commander Zinovy Rozhestvensky military commander Oskar Enkvist military commander Mikhail Fedorovich von Schultz military commander