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THE RUSSIAN ARMY AND THE
JAPANESE WAR
THE RUSSIAN ARMY AND
THE JAPANESE WAR,
BEING HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL COMMENTS ON
THE MILITARY POLICY AND POWER OF RUSSIA
AND ON THE CAMPAIGN IN THE FAR EAST,
TRANSLATED BY
EDITED BY
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
IN TWO VOLUMES: VOL. I.
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
1909
Printed in Great Britain
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
“The General stands higher than any other Russian officer, not onlyin Russian opinion, but in that of professional soldiers all the worldover, and if any human agency can change the deplorable situation toRussia’s advantage, Kuropatkin may be the man to do it.”[1] This sentence, written by the militarycorrespondent of the Times in February, 1904, well expresses thesentiment that predominated when General Kuropatkin’s appointment tocommand the Russian army in Manchuria was announced.
“It may be that a military genius would have overcome the moral andphysical difficulties we had to encounter. Possibly; but an Alexeieff,a Kuropatkin, a Linievitch, a Grippenberg, a Kaulbars, and a Bilderlingwere unable to do so,”[2] were the words used by theGeneral himself two years later when reporting to his Sovereign.
Though these two quotations epitomize the...