On July 25, 1895, the Japanese fleet sank near the island. Phungdo English steamer with two battalions of Chinese infantry and 14 guns. On August 1, 1894, the Japanese government officially declared war on China...This war became a landmark in the history of the Far East: it was after it that Japan declared its ambitions for dominance first in the Far East, and then throughout Asia and the Pacific; It was after it that the entire Far Eastern policy of European countries was radically revised. But, despite the fact that Japan won this war, the price turned out to be excessive: five wars in fifty years, atomic bombing, defeat in the world war. And this path to Calvary began for Japan in July 1894, in Seoul...