βIf fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fightβ - Sun Tzu
It was as though the timing could not have been better. Engaged in Poland and Finland against a multitude of enemies, Russia was currently weak, and the Shah of Persia was confident that he could win and thus pursued a surprise invasion of the Russian Caucasus.
Noteworthy, first of all, is that two months into the invasion, the Persian plans went immediately out of the window. The Persian plan A, as well as plan B, both of which had accounted for frequent and unfavorable direct engagement with the enemy and heavily defended fortifications, and the use of deception, looting and harassing, were discarded the second the Shah realised one small thing - there were neither Russians to fight, nor would there be any Russians to fight for a while. In fact, the vast majority of the Russian population of villages and towns near big cities had vanished. It was as though they had all been picked up, and relocated elsewhere for an indeterminate amount of time!
Whatβs more was that while it was originally the Persiansβ plan to lay waste to the countryside and deny any Russian armies the resources of their lands - it was the Persian armies that were denied the resources in the first place. Wells had been poisoned and any structure that would have provided cover from the cold at night, or the sun during daytime, were already destroyed when the Persians got there - luckily the Persians had devised sea and land routes to provide ample resources for their armies, including cattle.
First stop for the Persians was the coastal city of Baku, to which the way was painted red with the blood of the Persians, as male villagers armed with rudimentary rifles and well-planned ambushes, harass both the Persian soldiers, and the convoys leading to them.
βThatβs where they went! Kill them quickly!β shouted the Shah to his messengers, upon hearing the annoying news of such tactics, only to fall back onto his bed in his tent, with fever rising.
The initial battles against hit-and-run forces, in concert with the raids on supplies and convoys costing the Persian armies 500 regular and 700 irregular soldier casualties on the march to Baku. Once at Baku, with the surrounding of the city by both land and by sea, it is starved and bombarded into submission within weeks; the surviving garrison of 2,000 surrendering to the Persian armies. Sadly, with his illness, the Shah is not able to command his armies per
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I was asked by my professor on the the Russo-Persian Wars and I was asked to write about the consequences of it as well as the significance of the wars. I have been trying to find information of the wars but it was a very minor topic compared to the many I have seen.
Bonus question: is there a possible causal link between the wars and the decline and the growingly less tolerant (in terms of religious freedom and pluralism) character of 1600-1750 Commonwealth?
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>The Russian ships use Geisler fire control instruments to centrally control firepower. The Japanese ship reported the distance to the gun positions with a small blackboard, and each gun position XJB output firepower. The Japanese fleet's ability to suppress the Russian fleet was basically Shimose gunpowder output by small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns within 3,000 meters. However, after the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese navy, including the Japanese Navy, did not have a superstition about the experience of the victorious side in the Battle of Tsushima. Instead, he learned from the Russian Navy to engage in centralized fire control.
Japanβs own survey of the literacy level of conscripts in the Russo-Japanese War showed that soldiers who nominally completed elementary education would not count as elementary school mathematics. function? Whether a linear equation in one variable will be solved is a problem.
Suppose Japan had made some tactical missteps and failed to decisively gain the upper hand over Russia. Both suffer serious naval losses and the bloody cost of the war leads to both sides seeking armistice. No longer in the position to sue for victory, and with both countries suffering great economic costs, Japan and Russia agree on a white peace. Russia holds Manchuria and Sakhalin while no longer opposing Japan expanding their sphere of influence into Korea.
How does this affect global relations leading into the rest of the 20th century? How does this affect the Russian revolution and the expansion of the Japanese empire? Does this affect the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the WWI allegiances?
The Russo-Japanese War is considered as a major reason for the rise of Japan as a Great Power and accelerated the decline of Tsarist Russia with the onset of the 1905 Russian Revolution. Japan became the undisputed Great Power in Asia, gaining unfettered access in Korea and special economic privileges in Manchuria such as the South Manchurian Railway. Meanwhile, popular support for Tsar Nicholas II began to rapidly decline as the 1905 Revolution threw Russia into chaos. The Tsar's attempted reforms failed to rally liberals to the monarchy, further emboldening liberals and socialists to oppose the Tsar as they realize that the Tsar was unwilling to commit to meaningful reforms that liberalized Russia's autocratic political structure. Henceforth, what would have happened if Russia defeated Japan in the 1905 war? Would Japan have been able to rise as the leading power in Asia? Would Japanese militarism and fascism still take over Japan in the 1930s? How would this victory improve the domestic position of Tsar Nicholas II? Could he have held onto power in 1917?
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I recently got Ian Toll's trilogy about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and saw that during Japan's War with Russia, the Japanese military was praised for its treatment of prisoners of war. Prisoners were properly fed and given reading material, very few died, and those that did were buried with military honors.
This was striking to me because it is in stark contrast to how Japan treated prisoners of war in the Second World War. Beatings, slave labor, starvation, murder, etc are all details I've heard about those who surrendered to the IJA or IJN.
What prompted this drastic change in the treatment of PoWs?
During the Russo-Finnish War, a Russian general was marching his army through Finland. As they passed a ridge, he heard a voice call out from the other side:
βOne Finn is worth 10 Russians!β
So he takes his 10 best soldiers and sends them over the ridge. After a minute of shooting, there is silence. Then the same voice calls out:
βOne Finn is worth 100 Russians!β
He takes his best 100 soldiers, and sends them over the ridge. After several minutes of shooting, there is again silence. Then the same voice calls out a third time:
βOne Finn is worth 1,000 Russians!β
He sends his best 1,000 soldiers over the ridge. After almost an hour of shooting, one badly wounded Russian comes crawling over, and with his dying breath, tells the general:
βItβs a trapβthere are TWO Finns!β
From my research on reddit, it seems this would be the place to ask this question.
Iβve looked for simple infographics, fact sheets, or any condensed version of the events but am only finding fractioned accounts of what happened.
Can someone explain to me, or link a good source, the biggest events of the 20th century until today so I can understand what is happening? Most people I know have no idea what the war is about, and the people who do know how it started are not the best at explaining. I donβt want to resort to a certain un-mentionable online encyclopedia.
Thanks!
