The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Vol. 2 (of 2) / Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East

by A. N. Kuropatkin

Transcriber’s Notes:

• A small number of obvious typos have been corrected. Except for these corrections, the spelling and punctuation of the book have not been changed.
• There are 113 footnotes in the source book marked by characters such as * and †. The footnote markers have been replaced by numbers and each footnote has been moved to the end of the book.
• The first volume of this book has been posted to the Gutenberg site.
• The index to both volumes of this book is near the end of this volume. In this index the links to the pages of Volume I are listed after the lower-case Roman numeral, i, and are external links: the links to the pages of Volume II are internal links and are listed after the number ii.
• The external links in the index can only be followed in the HTML version.
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THE RUSSIAN ARMY AND THE
JAPANESE WAR

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GENERAL KUROPATKIN REVIEWING HIS TROOPS.

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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,

BY GENERAL KUROPATKIN.

TRANSLATED BY

CAPTAIN A. B. LINDSAY,

2ND KING EDWARD’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES
TRANSLATOR OF “THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA”; “THE TRUTH ABOUT PORT ARTHUR,” ETC.

EDITED BY

MAJOR E. D. SWINTON, D.S.O., R.E.,

AUTHOR OF “THE DEFENCE OF DUFFER’S DRIFT”;
AND EDITOR OF “THE TRUTH ABOUT PORT ARTHUR.”

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

IN TWO VOLUMES: VOL. II.

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
1909

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Printed in Great Britain

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