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The Russo-Japanese War began halfway around the world and ended on the Maine border at Portsmouth, N.H., where President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a peace agreement. The bloody conflict, which paved the way for much bigger wars, provoked a huge interest in Maine, where it dominated newspaper front pages for months after it began in February 1904.
The interest was well-placed. The first war in which "a colored people defeated a white people in modern times," according to my politically incorrect college world history textbook, it was also the first war in which armored battleships, self-propelled torpedoes and modern machine guns (thanks to Maine's Sir Hiram Maxim) were used.See the full content of this document
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Russian, Japanese War Sparked Local Interest
The conflict had far-reaching repercussions that affected the world for the rest of the century. Defeated by the Japanese, the Russians turned their attention to the Balkans, helping to stir the toxic broth leading to the First World War. The humiliation of the czarist go...
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