Battle of Tsushima

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The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese: ????), commonly known as the "Sea of Japan Naval Battle" (Japanese: ?????) in Japan, was the last and most decisive sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. It was fought on May 27 and May 28, 1905 (May 14 and 15 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski. In Theodore Rex (ISBN 0-394-55509-0), noted Historian Edmund Morris called it the greatest battle since Trafalgar.

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Japanese - Japan - Russo-Japanese War - 1904 - 1905 - May 27 - May 28 - Julian calendar - Tsushima Strait - Heihachiro Togo - Russia - Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski - Edmund Morris

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