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From the Yalu to Port Arthur
Sir William George Maxwell (1871–), 1906
Named on the page for Battle of Mukden.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
20 February – 10 March 1905 (7–25 February Old Style)
Battle of Mukden
CHAPTER XXIX
Capture of Liao-yang — The Supreme Moment at Hand — Truce of the Night — An Apparently Impregnable Position — Reckless Courage of the Japanese— Three Attacks and Three Repulses — ^An Irre- sistible Onrush — Liao-yang Won — Unflinching Rearguard at the Railway Station — Kuropatkin's Main Army on its way to Mukden — Orderly Retirement — No Sedan after all.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Mukden in Sight — Storming a Hill— Four Roads Open to the Retreat — Our Failure to Envelop the Enemy — Its Reason — Caution Justi- fied — ^A Feature of the War— Breakdown of the Russian Intelli- gence Branch — Bombardment of a Mountain — At Close Qnarters Again — Courageous and Audacious Defence — Flight.
JAPANESE LEADERS.
A GLANCE at the map will show that the Russian defence lay within an irregular triangle, of which Harbin is the apex, and Port Arthur and Vladivostock are the angles at the base. The railway from Harbin to Port Arthur passes through several towns, like Mukden, Liao-yang and Hai-cheng, upon which the Russians could concentrate rapidly, but south of H^i-cheng the line runs along the coast, and is open to flank attack from the sea.
LIAO-YANG.
Mukden
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