Battles and Campaigns
Battle of Tsushima
1905, Russo-Japanese War
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The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27-28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. The Imperial Japanese Navy under Togo Heihachiro inflicted a devastating defeat on the Imperial Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet, sinking or capturing most of the Russian battleships; contemporary observers called it the most important naval event since Trafalgar, and it remains the only decisive fleet engagement ever fought between modern steel battleship fleets.
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