Japan crosses the Yalu
1904 · Event
At the river between Korea and Manchuria, Japan's First Army throws back a Russian force in the war's first major land battle — the first time in the modern era an Asian army has beaten a European one in open battle. Military observers from every great power file the same startled report.
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