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TOGO, HEIHACHIRO, COUNT (1847– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1046 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOGO, HEIHACHIRO, See also:COUNT (1847– ) , See also:Japanese See also:admiral, was See also:born in Kagoshima. He studied See also:naval See also:science and See also:navigation in See also:England from 1871 to 1878, and first became a prominent figure when, in 1894, as See also:captain of the cruiser " Naniwa," he sunk the See also:Chinese troopship " Kowshing " en route for See also:Korea, thus precipitating See also:war with See also:China. When the Russo-Japanese conflict See also:broke out in 1904, he was appointed to the commandin-See also:chief of the Japanese See also:fleet, and under his direction various brilliant operations took See also:place, culminating in the See also:battle of the See also:Sea of See also:Japan when the See also:Russian fleet was annihilated. For these services he received (1907) the See also:title of count. In 1906 he was made a member of the See also:British See also:Order of Merit.

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