Signing the treaty at Portsmouth, Political Cartoon
Summary
"As it really looked; as it will look in the great historical painting."
(DLC/PP-1933:0112).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Published in: Chicago Tribune.
The Siege and Battle of Port Arthur marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. Porth Artur was the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria. Port Arthur was widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world at the time. It was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Russian land forces in the course of the siege suffered 31,000 casualties, of whom 15,000 were killed, wounded, and missing.
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Date
01/01/1905
Contributors
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949, artist
Source
Library of Congress
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