Aleksei Kuropatkin
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
Article abstract: Military significance: Kuropatkin served as Russian minister of war and commander of Russian field forces in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.
Aleksei Kuropatkin experienced his baptism of fire in a series of skirmishes in Turkestan in the 1860’s and during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). Rising through the ranks, he was appointed minister of war (1898) by Czar Nicholas II (ruled 1894-1917) and was influential in urging the government to occupy Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsula (1898), forcing China to grant Russia a...
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