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  Battle of Tsushima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed 2/3 of the Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski.
The Japanese combined fleet and the Russian Baltic Fleet, sent over from Europe, fought in the straits between Korea and Japan near the island of Tsushima.
Admiral Rozhdestvenski was knocked out of action with a shell fragment in his skull.
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 Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was then ordered to take his fleet to East Asia.
In 1906 his case was taken to court, where he pleaded guilty of losing the battle.
Рожественский, the alternate transliterations Rozhestvensky, Rozhdestvensky and Rozhedestvensky are also known in English texts.
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 Battle of Tsushima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
Togo was able to use this advantage to "cross the T" twice.
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 Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi Petrovich on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Commander of the Baltic fleet at the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, he was ordered to take his fleet to East Asia.
In the battle of Tsushima (1905), Rozhdestvenski's fleet was destroyed by Admiral Togo's fleet.
The Russian defeat led to an armistice with Japan shortly afterward.
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 History House: Russian Where Angels Fear to Tread
Rozhdestvenski got increasingly grumpy: at one point he tried to resign his command and hid in his cabin for two whole days.
Bread and even hardtack[7] got moldy and sailors rebelled by throwing their ruined foodstuffs overboard in protest, until the flagship leveled its guns at them, at which point the rebels relented and went back to grumbling quietly.
Rozhdestvenski doggedly pressed on as his chances for success dwindled.
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 AllRefer.com - Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski[zEnO´vE pEtrO´vich ruzhdyistvyen´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1848–1909, Russian admiral.
Commander of the Baltic fleet at the time of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, he was ordered to take his fleet to East Asia.
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 The Seoul Times
In this battle, the Russian Baltic Fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski was completely destroyed by an Imperial Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo, rewriting naval strategy of the period.
Moreover, Admiral Rozhdestvenski was no Nelson: he was castigated by his colleagues as inflexible, authoritarian yet fatally also wracked by indecision.
Admiral Rozhdestvenski, lying badly wounded on the Bedovyi, was captured at sea and taken to Japan's Sasebo naval base.
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 AllRefer.com - Tsushima, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Nearby, in May, 1905, occurred the major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War.
The Russian Baltic fleet, under command of Admiral Rozhdestvenski, suffered nearly total disaster in its encounter with the Japanese fleet under Count Togo.
Only a few of the Russian ships escaped to neutral ports or reached their destination (Vladivostok); the majority were sunk or captured.
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 Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski - TheBestLinks.com - English language, Japan, Transliteration, 1909, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski1 (1848-1909) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, who was involved in the Russo-Japanese War.
He was then ordered to take his fleet to East Asia to protect the Russian naval bas..
Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov (Russian: Зиновий Пешков, French: Zinovi Pechkoff, October 16, 1884 — November 27, 1966) was a French general and diplomat.
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 Russo-Japanese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Japanese army was now able to attack northward, and they drove the Russian army out of Shenyang by March.
Meanwhile, at sea, the Russians had already been preparing to reinforce their fleet the previous year by sending the Baltic Sea fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski around the Cape of Good Hope to Asia.
On October 21, 1904, while passing by Britain (an ally of Japan but neutral in this war), they nearly provoked a war in the Dogger Bank incident by firing on British fishing boats which they mistook for torpedo boats.
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 1905
May 15 - Las Vegas, Nevada is founded when 110 acres (in what later would become downtown) are auctioned off.
May 27 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima - The Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroys Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski[?] in this two day battle (ends on May 27).
September 5 Treaty of Portsmouth, (New Hampshire) ends Russo-Japanese War.
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 AllRefer.com - Russo-Japanese War (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History) - Encyclopedia
Two days later, without a declaration of war, Japan attacked Port Arthur and bottled up the Russian fleet.
A series of quick Japanese victories, which astounded the world, culminated in the fall of Port Arthur (Jan., 1905), the victory of troops under General Oyama at Shenyang (Feb.–Mar., 1905), and the destruction of the Russian fleet under Rozhdestvenski at Tsushima by Admiral Togo's fleet (May, 1905).
Through the mediation of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, peace was made in September at Portsmouth, N.H. (see Portsmouth, Treaty of).
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 Koda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition there was the Third Fleet (not part of the Combined Fleet), composed of cruisers and coastal defense ships; this the General Staff of the Navy assigned to escort Japanese shipping and support landing operations of the Army.
The expected naval reinforcements from Europe—in the form of the Baltic Fleet, under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski—was known to be preparing for its voyage to the Far East (which it actually began on 15 October 1904).
In other words, without the Battle of the Yellow Sea, which was almost no victory at all, Admiral Togo probably would have gone into the Tsushima battle without thorough preparations—without the best concept of operations, doctrine, or plan, and without the best tactics or fully trained forces and sailors.
www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2005/spring/art1-sp05.htm   (13424 words)

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