Ok, the time was 1904 in Asia
In St-Petersburg (Russia) also known as Leningrad or Petrograd, the Czar Nicolai II of the Romanov dynasty had decided to turn Mandchuria (Northern China and Korea) into a Russian Colony, at first the Japanese Government wasnt happy about this, so they protested in the diplomat way only to not even be listened.
At first, the Europeans were often seen as military speaking *invincible* since they had never lost a war to a Asian, African or Latino people yet there was always a first time to everything.
While Russia had launched a full scale invasion and ignored the Japanese, the Imperial Japanese Navy trained by the British and had most of their warships built in British shipyards then sailed to Japan had launched an all out shelling of the Russian Pacific Fleet anchored in Vladivostok, and virtually destroyed the entire Russian Pacific Fleet with a minimum losses.
And to say the least at the time the British had the most powerful Navy in the entire world, so the Japanese had good teachers.
Meanwhile the Imperial Japanese Army had launched an all out counter-offensive against the Russians, the Russians had seriously underestimated the Japanese in just about every way.
Yet it wasnt over, when the news that the Pacific Fleet had been whiped out got to the Czar, he ordered the Baltic Fleet to be transferred to Vladivostok, a journey that took them a while in 1905.
The Russian fleet was ambushed in the Japans sea between Japan and the mainland with Korea already a Japanese settelment at that time, many people reffered to this as the Battle of Tsushima, the results were decisive.
The Japanese fleet was lead by Admiral Togo, on the Japanese Flagship Mikasa.
The Russian sailors morales was already low from the starts, they already had several cases of mutiny on their ships through the trip.
The battle of Tsushima turned out a disaster for the Russians, again the entire Russian fleet had been slaugthered and the Commanding Officers had been captured, only few destroyers made it to Vladivostok.
When the Czar tried to send the Black Sea Fleet to take part in this conflict they only got a case of all out rebellions on their ships, and an entire Battleship crew tried sail out to neutral ports with an entire Capital ship.
Today, the Japanese Battleship Mikasa after the war did some training, and was assigned as a coast guard ship, and survived both world wars with the Korean war, today she can be seen as a museum in Japan where a statue of Admiral Togo stands, after World War 2 Admiral Nimitz (the same Nimitz that beat the Japanese during the War in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941) of the US Navy took part in the ceremony when the statue was unveiled to see.
After WW2, Admiral Togo was reffered by Admiral Chester Nimitz as the most brilliant Commander the Japanese ever had and the Battle of Tsushima is considered a very important battle in many important Naval Academies all over the world.
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