Sarah Paine

the salts are insufficient.

And it's only after the second one that he realizes the importance of 203 meter hill.

The problem is Nogi gets 45,000 Japanese soldiers killed doing this.

45,000 soldiers in that day is an entire army.

And I've already pointed out that Japan only had foreign armies until the very end of the war when it tries to cobble together a fifth one.

Here's what 203-meter hill looks like from down below.

Here's what it looks like from up top, the kind of view you get.

When there was a truce in early December 1904, and there was some talking between Japanese and Russian officers, Russian officers said, you will never capture 203-meter hill, to which the Japanese officer replied, we'll purchase it in blood.

And they did.

And their gamble paid off because all these ships, you'll notice they're listing.

It's because they ain't sailing anywhere.

The 203-meter hill, they take it the end of November.

And within the week, they are now sinking all of these battleships.

And they're gone within a few days.

And the Russians...

give up at Port Arthur, and the Third Army is up and heading into Manchuria, where it'll be there for the Battle of Mukden, which is a huge battle.

It's got, what, 500,000 troops?

But even so, Russia can muster 125,000 more troops than Japan can.

Japan, in this battle, is just taking anybody, young boys, old people, whoever they can put into that army, they're putting into it.

And you could argue that they're well beyond their culminating point of attack.