This is excellent! I first studied the Battle of Tsushima in the sixth form, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki which brought an end to the war. The animation really brought it home and made the movements of the two fleets so clear.
This is excellent. However, I really feel the battle can't be fully understood without knowing the Via Dolorosa the Russians trod in somehow coming over 18,000 miles to meet the Japanese in the Straits of Tsushima. Put simply, the Russian fleet was the worst on the high seas, an "archaeological collection of naval architecture" (to quote the bitter words of its commander Adm. Rozhestvensky), manned by ill-trained and demoralized conscripts led by often incompetent and untrustworthy officers (whose presence accounts for the competent and trustworthy Rozhestvensky's temper, which only grew more vile as he shepherded this ragtag gang of lunatic cats to its doom). The result of the Russians' ill-preparedness can be seen in this video's schematic view of the battle. To be blunt, the Japanese know what they're doing; the Russians don't. Thus the former systematically and mercilessly slaughter the latter, no matter how hard the Russians try to fight.
Excellent visualization of a rather complex naval encounter. Just recently found your podcast, love it so far!
Thank you . I was searching high and low for an animation that made sense of this engagement.
This is excellent! I first studied the Battle of Tsushima in the sixth form, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki which brought an end to the war. The animation really brought it home and made the movements of the two fleets so clear.
Treaty of Shimonoseki was 10 years ahead of Battle of Tsushima, ends Sino-Japanese war. Russo-Japanese war ends with Treaty of Portsmouth
This is fantastic!
This is excellent. However, I really feel the battle can't be fully understood without knowing the Via Dolorosa the Russians trod in somehow coming over 18,000 miles to meet the Japanese in the Straits of Tsushima.
Put simply, the Russian fleet was the worst on the high seas, an "archaeological collection of naval architecture" (to quote the bitter words of its commander Adm. Rozhestvensky), manned by ill-trained and demoralized conscripts led by often incompetent and untrustworthy officers (whose presence accounts for the competent and trustworthy Rozhestvensky's temper, which only grew more vile as he shepherded this ragtag gang of lunatic cats to its doom).
The result of the Russians' ill-preparedness can be seen in this video's schematic view of the battle. To be blunt, the Japanese know what they're doing; the Russians don't. Thus the former systematically and mercilessly slaughter the latter, no matter how hard the Russians try to fight.
Фейк.