One side utilized a "crossing the T" strategy during this conflict to decisively defeat the other's Second Pacific Squadron at the Battle of Tsushima Straits.
British codebreakers in Malaya assisted one side during this conflict. During this conflict, General Kuropatkin organized a retreat after losing 90,000 men in the Battle of Mukden. Theodore Roosevelt mediated the signing of a peace treaty for this conflict at (*) Portsmouth. One side utilized a "crossing the T" strategy during this conflict to decisively defeat the other's Second Pacific Squadron at the Battle of Tsushima Straits. For 10 points, name this 1904-1905 conflict, the first in modern history that saw an Asian country defeat a European power.
British codebreakers in Malaya assisted one side during this conflict.
Russo-Japanese War