💥 THE NIGHT THE BALTIC BURNED
October 11
In 1858, Russian warships and Japanese cruisers clashed in the waters off Etorofu (Iturup) island in the Kuril chain, one of the first major naval engagements of the modern age. The fight left Japan's wooden fleet battered and humiliated — a humiliation that helped drive the Meiji modernization that would, decades later, produce a navy capable of challenging empires.
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