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The Romanovs and the Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima
In 1905, the Imperial Russian Navy sailed halfway around the world only to be annihilated in the Tsushima Strait. This episode dives into the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval clash of the Russo-Japanese War. We follow Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky's Second Pacific Squadron on its grueling 18,000-mile voyage from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of Japan, plagued by mechanical failures, coal shortages, and the infamous Dogger Bank incident where Russian ships fired on British trawlers. We then explore how Admiral Heihachiro Togo's Japanese fleet used superior tactics and the element of…
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