Russia seizes Manchuria
1900 · Event
Under cover of the Boxer emergency, 170,000 Russian troops occupy all of Manchuria — and stay when the crisis ends, despite every promise to withdraw. Japan, watching its own designs on the region blocked, begins preparing for the reckoning that comes in 1904: the Boxer year loads the gun of the Russo-Japanese War.
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