From the Yalu to Port Arthur (Registro nro. 116941)
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| LC control number | war07000085 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maxwell, William, Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1860-1928 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | From the Yalu to Port Arthur |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-06-03 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | 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.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Hutchinson & Co, 1906 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Lüshun (China) -- History -- Siege, 1904-1905 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t0vq3hg0d&view=1up&seq=9">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t0vq3hg0d&view=1up&seq=9</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76216">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76216</a> |
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