ABSTRACT
If 1905 marked the waning of the Europeans in Asia, it also marked the waxing of the Asians themselves. J.F.C. Fuller regarded the Russo-Japanese War as one of the great turning points in Western history for
It was not merely a trial of strength between an Asiatic and a semiEuropean power, but above all it was a challenge to Western supremacy in Asia . . . The fall of Port Arthur in 1905, like the fall of Constantinople in 1453, rightly may be numbered among the few really great events of history.1
