Russo-Japanese War Begins - Port Arthur 1904 DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Kings and Generals animated documentary series on the early modern history and history of Russia and Japan continues with a video on the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, as we discuss why it happened, what led to the hostilities starting between two countries, how Russia and Japan developed in the decades before it, the role the situation in China and Korea played a role and the beginning of the Battle of Port Arthur in 1904
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"alcoholism and general lack of discipline was a serious problem among Russian troops" Sounds oddly...familiar.
I actually laugh when I hear that Russia is scared of Japan growing its defense spending. Gee, I wonder why (haha) ?
May this video be blessed by the algorithm!
Fascinating that a war that lasted little over a year had so many military and political consequences across the globe this was arguably the second most important war before the ww1 alongside with the first Balkan war (both helping to start the catastrophe in 1914).
First balkan war then Second balkan war sh*t.
The war with France that ended with the unification of Germany could be seen as even more important as that really shook up the balance of power.
Having the powder keg that was the Balkan situation lying around made it even easier to blow things up.
Ah, yes. The "first time an European colonial power got its ass kicked by a non-European empire" war.
Mongols
@@Ghostrex101that was before European countries became colonial empires
First time? You totally forgot my country, Ethiopia, and the battle of Adwa in 1896.
russia was not European or a colonial power.
@@tripsaplenty1227 they are closer to Europeans than to asians
You released part 1 of the video about Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Please keep up the Toyotomi Hideyoshi videos as well. GOOD LUCK TO THE KINGS AND GENERALS CHANNEL❤❤❤
Thanks for making the video! Just a few things about the map:
1) what's now Primorsky Krai (with its main settlement in Vladivostok) had already been ceded by the Qing to Russia in 1860.
2) Russia's capital at the time was St Petersburg, not Moscow.
3) Tsushima was part of Japan, both before and after the war.
Impresive rise of Japanise Empire!
They have Ching Dystany as a perfect case study of how to build a proper modiciation policy.
just remember to arm your ships with the powerfull binoculars and try not to shoot at neutral ships
Truly engaging and detailed series on a not so much covered topic, many concept of modern warfare showed up for the first time during this war!
we eating good to day
Guy who is drawing your map is really doing bad job with its accuracy....
One of the ships that participated at the battle of tsushima served under the chilean navy. It was the "esmeralda" and after 10 years it was sold to the Japanese and renamed "izumi"
Another new series from KnG! Count me in.
Watched it while it was an exclusive. Well worth watching again.
3:27 Those Eight Alliance nations are everyone who fought in WWI
Waiting for the next Ottoman episode.
Mikasa was always good at fighting. 😅
Fun Fact: The Siege of Port Arthur became an inspiration for the Battle of Fort Slava in Attack on Titan.
Very cool, detailed presentation of political, economic, military and demographic situation of these nations, before war starts.
Always glad to see this relatively unknown war being covered, so please don't take what I am going to say as some pedantic rumbling. I just want to address certain points and myths to complement the video which, as often on this channel, seems well researched.
- Admiral Tōgō's given name is Heihachirō, its family name is Tōgō. All other Japanese names are given in the Japanese way, that is, given names follows the family names. In Tōgō's case it's the contrary, don't know why.
-At the time of the attack on Port Arthur, Rear-Admiral Zinoviy Petrovich Rozhestvenskiy was not commander of the Baltic Fleet. He was nominated commander of the Second Pacific Squadron (composed of the majority of the ships from the Baltic Fleet) on the 2nd of May, 1904. Similarly, Vice-Admiral Nikolai Illarionovich Skrydlov was not the commander of the Vladivostok Squadron. The squadron was under the theoretical command of Rear-Admiral Ewald Antonovich von Stackelberg but, for reasons unknown, real command was under Captain Nikolai Karlovich Reytsenshteyn, which was quickly promoted Rear-Admiral and transferred to Port Arthur where he took command of the cruisers there. He was replaced by Rear-Admiral Karl Petrovich Iessen at the head of the Vladivostok Squadron. Finally, at the start of the war, Admiral Dewa Shigetō and Admiral Rozhestvenskiy were Rear-Admirals and Admiral Oskar Viktorovich Stark (his Russian name), and Admiral Skrydlov were Vice-Admirals.
-At the end of 1903/early 1904, Russia was not sending the Baltic Fleet to reinforce the Pacific, but a small squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Andryey Andryeyevich Virenius, consisting of only one battleship, the Oslyabya, as its core. The Squadron was at Suez when the war started and was forced to go back to the Baltic and integrated Rozhestvenskiy's Fleet.
-Honestly, the ship numbers given for each fleet at around 9:40 don't make much sense but as a whole, those kinds of numbers are often difficult to compare in simple tables like those ones and often not really relevant anyway.
-During the day engagement outside Port Arthur, neither side suffered important damage. The gunnery was not poor, the engagement was just fought at extreme ranges for the time. The Russians did not stay passive and formed a line of battle.
-Most importantly, Vice-Admiral Stark was NOT celebrating his wife's birthday at the moment of the attack on Port Arthur. This is a quite well-known myth that was spread during the war by journalists as a symbol of Russian incompetence. However, most firsthand accounts of this event are contradicting themselves. Some say that it was for his wife's birthday or his own birthday, others say that it was for his wife's or his daughter's name day (Saint Mary's day). Some say that the reception was on board the Petropavlosk, others that it was at the Starks residence with most if not all of the officers of the Fleet in attendance. But there are also firsthand accounts (that I believe are the more plausible) that affirm that a party was organised by Mrs. Stark at the Starks residence, that a lot of naval officers based on shore were present, but that the Admiral was on his flagship in a meeting during the attack and that a strict no-shore-leave was in place on this night and the nights before. Admiral Stark had requested that his fleet be placed in full alert but it was denied by the Viceroy (Admiral Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev). Stark had, however, on his own initiative, ordered torpedo nets deployed and the order for the night was "prepare to repel torpedo boats attack". It is difficult to believe that a commander that had gone to such a length to prepare its fleet for war during the preceding days will organise a party and dismiss loud explosions such as portrayed here.
I will stop there, it's already quite a long post, thanks for reading. Again, nothing against this channel or the video, just a few precisions from my side that I think can be interesting.
Good job! I was about to comment on the Second squadron myself.
This period until end of WW2 shows how quickly allies and enemies (countries) can switch sides within a persons lifetime.
It is sad that a channel like this still has problems about drawing maps properly especially in videos about modern history.
Can't possibly have everything 100% correct when presenting warfare dating back to Bronze Age to the present day.
@@tenzinalexander That is a criticism I would have agreed on normal terms but for a video that people used to pay money to watch (at least when it was first uploaded) it loses its validity, more importantly the same channel was able to draw for more accurate maps for much more complicated time periods such as the 1500s and 1600s. If you think I am being a bit too harsh on the language I use sorry for that.
@@sarpyasar5893 I get what you mean and you didn't sound harsh.
I mean you're 100% right, the devil is in the details. These maps are widely available to literally anyone.
@@tenzinalexander thank you for understanding me have a good day
Do you see Torpedo Boats?
The 39th parallel is somewhat...... let's say , interesting? 👍. Luv this shit.
I'm the Emperor of Japan... I have a giant mecha suit.
- Oversimplified
Awesome series! Goes excelent with Pacific War and Russian Revolution.
Insert < Boring Comment for UA-cam Algorithm >
Ah the good old vickers salesman, got a lot of good trade with the Japanese
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things
I wonder if Russian binoculars will be covered in the series?
0:56 Why is Tibet falsely shown as integral part of China when it wasn't?
The Baltic Fleet did not depart for the Pacific until October 1904.
Incredible! Thank you.
Tsushima was and is part of Japan, both before and after the war. It never belonged to korea as you have colored it
At the time, Alsace-Lorraine is in Germany, not in France it is shown on the map here.
It's a little detail which has deep implication in world geopolitics discussed in the video.
One of the greatest battles from an often overlooked war. Fantastic video as always. This is one of my favorite series
Oof, the battle of Tsushima and circumstances leading to it will be one of the saddest/funniest on this channel.
*Yuki no singun starts playing*
The Russians do not like to be reminded about this war 👍 we should remind them more often.
same with learning from Criemian war 1853 Ottoman britain against Russians in ukraine and russian economy collap sell to alaska them to america small part dollars.
All countries have military history, it's not a gloating thing, if anything remind the Japanese, lot to be proud of in this performance
People don't remember invasion of Manchuria either In 1945
1702 and 1740 sieges of St. Augustine?
Long awaited. Thank you 😊
China might have benefited from Japan's defeat of Russia, or else Manchuria could have been annexed and turned into another 'Vladivostok.'
This is in fact NOT the “first time a colonial European power was defeated by a non-european empire” Off the top of my head I don’t really know what would be considered the FIRST. But I know damn well it wasn’t this because the Ethiopian empire defeated the Italians in 1895. Kings and Generals should know that being a history channel themselves but instead decided to like a comment that is spreading false information.🤷🏻♂️
Very nice and informative video!
Russian Ukraine war update
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Yooo another amazing vidio
very good - thank you
Good day, all!
Ws in the chat K&G posted
Japan showed Europe that the Asians are just as capable as the Europeans...
Main reason for that was that Japan was a united country with a large population spurred on by American influence and British ships. Had that not happend they'd be too backward to fend off a European great power.
@@someonesilence3731 Well, China was a counterexample,despite being a united country with the largest population at the time, it lost almost every war against European powers and handed over a huge chunk of territory to Russia without even putting up a fight.
@@henghuangxu4261They were far from united. Example: When the Guangxu emperor tried to reform, the Emperess Dowager Cixi promptly overthrew him and initiated the second Opium War
@@CirBam24 But In principle, the Qing was still a united country, especially after crushing the Taiping Rebellion. Besides, during that time, the Qing reconquered Xinjiang and established it as a province, so you can't say it wasn't a united empire.
@@henghuangxu4261 Holy that is completely wrong. The Taiping rebellion was a sucess DESPITE the disunity in Qing forces. I would suggest watching some vids or just glancing at some articles, there you would notice that the Qing won not due to a centralized, united force but by decentralized provincial armies. The armies constantly quarrelled and undermined each other.
This marked the rise of the warlords (which if you look into Chinese history is often what happens prior to a Chinese fragmentation)
Thanks dudes
Thank you
Super👍👍👍
Probably the first true modern war. Absolutely fascinating, and one I wish people knew more about.
Japan's naval dominance for the next generation would start here.
I'd give that title to the Crimean War. What's sad is that pretty much everyone observed it carefully but they still kept their old tactics which would lead to horrendous loss of life during the Russo-Japanese War and esp. later in WWI.
@@kaltaron1284 expect they has same casualties as Japan in this war
@@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl I don't get what you're trying to say.
@kaltaron1284 loss of life thing didn't happen in the Japanese war
@@AhmedBabiker-sr8fl What?
Japan fielded 1,200,000 soldiers in total of which 80k were killed, (more than 20k from disease, in large part because the army was too stupid to feed their soldiers poperly)
In the Battle of Nanshan which lasted 3 days 6k out of 35.5k were killed.
During the 5 months long Siege of Port Arthur 58k out of 200k were killed.
Most deaths occured when the Japanese were doing frontal mass charges against entrenched Russian forces.
👍🏼👍🏼🎉
So you guys are just going to recycle member only videos on release dates? Seems kinda lazy.
Explained the reasoning - want for non-members to see what they are missing out. There will be a few here and there.
I’ve already watched this series, I hope there will be a long video for it in the future
Japan maybe a Villain but Japan changed Asian History.
Cpt. Obvious, you're hereby being promoted to Major.
Ironically The War Ended Where It Started.
Not quite.
@@xandervk2371 It started at Port Arthur and ended there as well. You know Tsushima and The Siege of Port Arthur.
@@alfrancisbuada2591 Please look up the Treaty of Portsmouth.
This gave the Japanese the idea to do it to usa. Russia poor fihvting inspired them
Wait wtf why does this script sound nearly identical to the pacific war channel’s video on the russo Japanese war
Thanks for the video
As a youngster we were taught history as part of our educational curriculum. I think there is a danger on the subjects, format, and content. As now learning the full unbiased accounts here I feel almost guilty of the preconceptions iv held of other nations. For instance I grew up thinking the Japanese were an inferior people that were stamped out and beaten easily. I could go on for hours. Ignorance is not bliss, it's taught, encouraged, and dangerous to our future. And most probably lead to a lot more content to channels like this one. But tytyty for "re educating" us ❤
GRRRRREAT Intro‼ As the song by The Propellerheads went: "It's all just a little bit of history repeating"
when you started with "day of infamy when Japan attacked without declaration of war", I thought this is going to be Pearl Harbor for the first 10 seconds. nice opening trick.
Essentially destitute, I also thank you patrons for supporting this wonderful team.
Wish you all the best, hang in there!
Japan opened the 20th century gaining international recognition as a superpower, a nation whose example is either you are attacked and colonized or you are the protagonist and attack. I am curious about researching more about this idea of yellow peril. Many Western experts thought that it was China, not Japan, that would probably emerge as a colossus that would make Asia unite by force and tremble the Westerners, until the beginning of the 1900s when China was actually surpassed by Japan.
Except by the peace talks after WW1 in 1919 and 1920, the Japanese were beginning to feel pushed out of the world powers sphere by the USSR, France, the US and the UK. so when they returned home they began their expansion quest again.
I will never understand having access to these for free. Thanks for consistently putting out quality videos.
Thanks for the kind donation!
Just wonder if you have a chance to review the Shino -Japanese War of 1894? The involvement of Korean is just a final pieces of puzzle to trigger Sino Japan War of 1894 and Japan Russia war of 1904.
Not right now
K&G already did videos on this war
yep, they were patron/member exclusive. This is the teaser release of the episode #1 of that exclusive series.
is it the only member content that now be free?
Albigensian Crusades #1 is now available for free
5:14 based Wilhelm
I do hope your videos on the Spanish and Austrian Wars of Succession also become public someday. There are very little videos about those wars specifically and you guys never fail with your videos
Thanks. Our members are enjoying the Spanish Succession right now.
So glad this came out so I don't have to read 80 pages for my class this week.
I think you still should read them
Traditionally, the Russian military has always been sub par, so I've always found myself confused why the results of this war are supposed to be shocking.
Traditionally? We are talking about the same country that destroyed Sweden/Poland Lithuania/ottomans and put them in a weak state also napoleon and hitler
Why is the map so bad in this video?
Port Arthur 1904, aka the Prequel to the Russian Empire's Voyage of the Damned,
Prequel.
@@JonathanLundkvist OH YEAH!
My bad, thanks for the correction😅👍
I remember you made this video like many years ago.
Very different
@@KingsandGenerals I know I love the original
Already watched it while it was on Patreon.
Will put it on again for the algorithm!
Same, was one of the first viewers
"Saviour of the white of race"
now I know where Adolf got his ideas.
If it only were that simple to conclude a direct continuum between the viewes of Wilhelm and those the Adolf H.
It's important to note that the two were decades apart from one another in age, and their ideals, while sounding similar when attempted to be summed up in an ubridged version, were not one and the same.
Another video from members only, awesome I wanted to learn more about the Russo-Japanese War
Me too, watched it as a member. Great series. im Commenting for UA-cam Algorithm.
A great series, can recommend the other episodes as well!
Japanese against Most powerfulls Mongol invasions 1280 AD Russians for 1905 and chinese for 1895 conguest of taiwan against ging empire then conguered korea and importantly immosible invade region of vieatnam to indonesia region against dutch british forces then to japanese bad position americans to pearl harbour losing our japanese empire but brave japanese against ww2 treaties economical advance on gdp and millitary connection of west.