[Footnote 1: Lessons from the Yalu Fight, Century Magazine, August, 1895, p. 630.]
[Footnote 2: Custance, The Ship of the Line in Battle, p. 103.]
By the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895) which closed the war, Japan won Port Arthur and the Liao-tung Peninsula, the Pescadores Islands and Formosa, and China's withdrawal from Korea. But just as she was about to lay hands on these generous fruits of victory, they were snatched out of her grasp by the European powers, which began exploiting China for themselves. Japan had to acquiesce and bide her time, using her war indemnity and foreign loans to build up her fleet. The Yalu thus not only marks the rise of Japan as a formidable force in international affairs, but brings us to a period of intensified colonial and commercial rivalry in the Far East and elsewhere which gave added significance to naval power and led to the war of 1914.
Aside from those already cited see:
Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist, H. W. Dickinson, 1913.
The Story of the Guns, J. E. Tennant, 1864.
The British Navy, Sir Thomas Brassey, 1884.
Clowes' History of the Royal Navy, Vol. VII (p. 20, bibliography).
Naval Development of the 19th Century, N. Barnaby, 1904.