item: #1 of 8 id: 27910 author: Collingwood, Harry title: Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War date: None words: 107909 flesch: 59 summary: But some flew over, and others fell short; not one touched us; and as the heavy, rumbling _boom_ of the reports reached our ears, the _Mikasa_ signalled another shift of helm a further four points east, and before the Russians fully realised what we were about, the Japanese fleet was crossing the T,--that is to say, passing athwart the enemy's course. He had been with me at Dartmouth, after that in the _Vengeance_, and now again in the _Terrible_; he therefore knew me well enough to implicitly believe me when I assured him upon my word of honour that I was innocent. keywords: admiral; arthur; battle; battleships; bay; boat; captain; close; course; craft; crew; cruisers; day; deck; destroyers; enemy; fire; fleet; general; good; guns; half; hand; harbour; heavy; hour; japanese; length; like; line; little; man; miles; minutes; moment; night; o'clock; officers; order; port; round; russian; sea; shells; ships; signal; sir; smoke; south; speed; squadron; time; togo; torpedo; water; way; work cache: 27910.txt plain text: 27910.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 30482 author: Upward, Allen title: The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War date: None words: 65738 flesch: 79 summary: And then, a happy thought striking me, I added in an aggrieved voice, Do you think it is nothing to me that you should be associated with other men in the most secret enterprises, holding private conferences with them, receiving them in your house, perhaps visiting them in theirs; that you should appear to be on intimate terms with the Grand Duke Staniolanus, with M. Petrovitch, with a man like this M. Auguste---- At the sound of this last name, to which I had artfully led up, Sophia sprang into a sitting posture and gave me a look of anger and fear. Such men are always welcome in Russia. keywords: auguste; baltic; boat; captain; case; chapter; course; czar; day; door; emperor; english; eyes; face; fleet; friend; german; good; great; hand; head; house; japanese; life; look; majesty; man; moment; night; order; petersburg; petrovitch; place; police; princess; room; russian; saw; sea; secret; sophia; spirit; submarine; thought; time; train; war; way; woman; words; work cache: 30482.txt plain text: 30482.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 3050 author: Davis, Richard Harding title: Notes of a War Correspondent date: None words: 55670 flesch: 75 summary: [Picture: Firing from the trenches at Velestinos] Other men were carried out of the trench and laid on their backs on the high grass, staring up drunkenly at the glaring sun, and with their limbs fallen into unfamiliar poses. But there was this difference, that Rodriguez, while probably as willing to give six lives for his country as was the American rebel, being only a peasant, did not think to say so, and he will not, in consequence, live in bronze during the lives of many men, but will be remembered only as one of thirty Cubans, one of whom was shot at Santa Clara on each succeeding day at sunrise. keywords: advance; army; battle; camp; captain; column; day; days; enemy; fact; fire; firing; general; good; grass; half; head; high; hill; japanese; juan; ladysmith; left; line; little; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; officers; open; order; place; riders; san; sun; time; town; trail; trench; trenches; troop; war; water; way; white; wood; wounded cache: 3050.txt plain text: 3050.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 33559 author: Stratemeyer, Edward title: At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy date: None words: 56812 flesch: 87 summary: Captain Ponsberry must haf some, and dot Larry Russell, too. CHAPTER II A STORM ON THE PACIFIC Larry found Captain Ponsberry working over a chart on the cabin table, laying out the course of the ship. keywords: arthur; ben; captain; captain ponsberry; columbia; day; deck; gilbert; good; grandon; hand; japanese; larry; luke; man; mate; men; money; navy; officer; peterson; ponsberry; port; right; russian; sailor; schooner; semmel; shamhaven; ship; time; want; warship; way; work cache: 33559.txt plain text: 33559.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 37731 author: Walker, W. W. (William Wesley) title: Alter Ego: A Tale date: None words: 10415 flesch: 61 summary: Many men were struck down around me, some of them horribly mangled, and portions of the works literally smashed to splinters, but such is war, and some call it glory. PREFACE To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a loftier plane of thought and action? keywords: canada; day; devoau; general; god; good; life; man; melvin; men; minister; pastor; people; place; time cache: 37731.txt plain text: 37731.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 45413 author: Allen, Willis Boyd title: The North Pacific: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War date: None words: 71800 flesch: 79 summary: A rush for the quay, and the _Osprey_ men scrambled into their boats, taking the two Japanese with them. They were young men, under the average stature, dark-skinned, and almost notably quiet in appearance and manner. keywords: army; arthur; battle; black; board; boat; bob; city; commander; course; crew; dave; day; deck; east; eyes; far; fire; fleet; fred; general; good; great; half; hand; head; home; japanese; larkin; left; liddon; life; line; long; man; men; moment; morning; naval; navy; new; night; north; officers; oshima; osprey; oto; port; rexdale; room; russian; sea; ship; shore; shot; sir; staples; time; tokio; torpedo; vessel; war; water; way; years cache: 45413.txt plain text: 45413.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 49735 author: Politovskii, Evgenii Sigizmundovich title: From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident date: None words: 66638 flesch: 88 summary: Orel_ are better armoured than the _Cesarevitch_. A week before the _Orel_ went to Saigon the captain of the _Borodino_ ordered 4,000 eggs, hams, etc., for the crew. keywords: admiral; bay; board; boat; borodino; cabin; captain; coal; course; crew; day; days; deck; english; fleet; french; japanese; leave; left; letters; men; morning; morrow; news; night; o'clock; officers; order; orel; place; port; russia; sea; send; ships; shore; steamer; suvaroff; time; torpedo; vladivostok; water; way; yesterday cache: 49735.txt plain text: 49735.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 51066 author: Tyler, Sydney title: The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East date: None words: 132973 flesch: 59 summary: Russian fleet dispersed and in part destroyed. Admiral Togo telegraphed, May 30, as follows: The ships sent northward to search for Russian ships returned yesterday. keywords: admiral; advance; armies; army; artillery; attack; battle; boats; chief; commander; course; cruisers; czar; days; division; east; enemy; field; fighting; fire; fleet; force; forts; general; government; guns; hand; harbor; heavy; hill; illustration; japanese; korea; kuroki; kuropatkin; left; liao; line; manchuria; march; men; miles; military; mukden; naval; north; officers; oku; operations; place; point; port arthur; position; railway; retreat; right; river; russian; sea; second; sha; ships; sidenote; south; squadron; struggle; time; togo; torpedo; troops; vessels; victory; war; west; work; world; wounded; yang cache: 51066.txt plain text: 51066.txt