Togo annihilates Russians at Tsushima
May 27, 1905
The Russian Baltic fleet had sailed eighteen thousand miles to save the war. In the straits between Korea and Japan, Admiral Togo crossed their T and sank or captured nearly every ship in a single afternoon. A non-European navy had destroyed a European great power at sea. The age of white supremacy in Asia began to end.
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