Project Gutenberg 2025-06-03 Public domain in the USA. 189 Maxwell, William, Sir 1860 1928 Maxwell, Sir William war07000085 From the Yalu to Port Arthur $aLondon :$bHutchinson & Co, $c1906. Brian Coe, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) From the Yalu to Port Arthur by Sir William Maxwell is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It presents a war correspondent’s first-hand chronicle of the Russo-Japanese War, tracing Japan’s campaign from the Yalu River through Manchuria to the surrender of Port Arthur, with close attention to commanders, planning, and logistics. Expect strategic analysis intertwined with vivid on-the-ground reporting, especially alongside General Kuroki’s First Army. The opening of the work sets out Maxwell’s unique vantage (embedded with Kuroki from the Yalu to the Sha-ho and present at Port Arthur’s surrender), then recounts the diplomatic road to war: Korea’s fraught status, China’s waning suzerainty, Japan’s 1894–95 victory, Russia’s subsequent encroachments, and the missteps and delays that culminated in Japan’s decision to fight. He outlines Japanese intelligence estimates of Russian strengths and weaknesses (skeptical of Kuropatkin and the Cossacks, confident in breaking Russian morale), contrasts them with Russian misreadings of Japanese tactics, and sketches Japan’s leaders and campaign design. The narrative then moves to action: seizing Chemulpo and Seoul, the sinking of the Varyag, the rapid push on Pyng-yang and Anju, cautious advances under uncertain enemy intentions, and ingenious logistics—including covert coastal landings and road-building through morass to bring howitzers forward. Maxwell describes his rough journey north across filthy villages and flooded tracks, the bustling Japanese supply lines, and missionary outposts, before surveying the Yalu’s complex channels and islands that made a direct assault perilous. It culminates in a detailed account of the engineers’ night bridging and pontoon operations under fire—slipping field and heavy guns onto islands like Kontonto and Chonchagtai—successfully establishing a foothold for the coming battle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t0vq3hg0d&view=1up&seq=9 20201101035623maxwell 1906 GB Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Lüshun (China) -- History -- Siege, 1904-1905 DS Text Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: History - Warfare 665241 2025-07-30T07:10:35.302499 text/html 639226 2025-06-03T11:49:29 text/html 3757300 2025-07-30T07:10:45.668921 application/epub+zip 3753240 2025-07-30T07:10:37.512924 application/epub+zip 424147 2025-07-30T07:10:36.248911 application/epub+zip 4253089 2025-07-30T07:10:51.723841 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4196881 2025-07-30T07:10:44.519932 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 615645 2025-07-30T07:10:34.327514 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 595736 2025-06-03T11:49:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14212 2025-07-30T07:10:51.878857 application/rdf+xml 11472 2025-07-30T07:10:36.520909 image/jpeg 1918 2025-07-30T07:10:36.381414 image/jpeg 3364689 2025-07-30T07:10:35.470484 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia