The Siege of Port Arthur (Lüshunkou, Manchuria) is recorded among the events of the turn of the century: the stronghold Russia and Japan fought over in the war of 1904–1905.
| Type | Event (siege) |
| Date | 1904–1905 |
| Place | Port Arthur, Liaodong Peninsula |
| Spanish entry | Asedio de Port Arthur |
Description
The Liaodong Peninsula stretches south like a finger, Port Arthur at the head of the gulf, warships scattered in the Yellow Sea. At night in the Yellow Sea, battleships fought amid phosphorus bursts and columns of smoke, the Russian iron burning before the Japanese line. The record gives name, place and years and little else.
Background
The timeline records “Devastations in Japan” in 1891: more than a decade of friction between the two empires preceded the siege. The record also links it to the events in Russia of the same years. It belongs to the uchronia of the Belle Époque of Uchronic Paris, adjoining the capital’s cardinal date, 1901.
Open questions
- Who took part in the siege and what was lost behind the walls.
- In an uchronia where the 1900 Paris Exposition opened direct portals to Sigil, the siege is suspected to have an uchronic counterpart; no record proves it.
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