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Title: A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hamilton, Ian, Sir, 1853-1947
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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completed with sandbag loopholes. Also there werebarbed wire obstacles, which are specially effectiveagainst swift-running Japanese. It was owing to theloopholes and the barbed wire that 10,000 Russiansresisted the Third Army of 42,000 and the 1st ArtilleryBrigade until sunset, although their artillery had beencompletely silenced (owing to the mistake in placingthe howitzers) by 9 a.m. I must now act up to my principles and tear myselfaway from too serious a consideration of a fascinatingexample of naval and military combination on thebattlefield. Although Nanshan must have had a badmoral effect on the troops who had to fall back, yet itis probable that, in the long run, the victory wasdearly bought by the Japanese. They won the posi-tion too cheaply at a cost of 4504 killed and wounded,or only about 10 per cent, of their force. They did notquite grasp the inherent weakness of a concentratedforce on the Nanshan hills when attacked by modern TALIENWAN BAV POSITION OFRUSSIANGUNBOAT. •
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