NIPPON’S NEW NAVY
Kotetsu (ex CSS Stonewall), Japan’s first modern ironclad, 1869. The British-built Mikasa, the most powerful battleship of her time, in 1905. Important as the army was, for an island nation like Japan the navy was even more vital. It took impressive strides forward from the 1870s to the 1890s while Togo slowly progressed through its […]
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