Crimean War: strength of Russian army, i. 13; Russia’s unpreparedness, i. 16, 101, 109; Inkerman, i. 18; siege of Sevastopol, i. 19; a premature peace, i. 20–22 Dalny: Russian annexation of, i. 69; Japanese use of, i. 127; its fortifications, i. 172, ii. 207; commerce, i. 190; coal storage at, i. 246 Danube, the, Russian acquisition and loss of the mouths of, i. 13, 16, 19, 24, 32 Defence schemes, ii. 26–30 Dembovski, General, at Mukden, ii. 285, 286 Demchinski, M., _Were we Ready for War?_ i. 111 Djam, Russian force at, i. 84 Dragomiroff, General, and quick-firing artillery, i. 136; his theories, ii. 8, 10, 11 Dubniak Hill, capture of, i. 25 Dukhovski, General, Governor-General and Commander in the Pri-Amur district, and the Siberian Railway, i. 151, 171 Dushkevitch, Colonel, i. 302 Eastern Chinese Railway: the bad condition of, i. 131, 132, 182–242; a parallel in Persia, i. 193; suggested sale to China, i. 221; capacity of, i. 243–256 Emmanuel, Major, his appreciation of the Japanese army, i. 222 Engineers, ii. 141–146; details of units, ii. 162 Essen, Admiral, his daring sally from Vladivostok, i. 239 Esthonia, Russian annexation of, i. 5 Eupatoria, the Allies’ disembarkation at, i. 17 Feng-huang-cheng, Russian occupation of, i. 170–174, 184 Finance Minister, dual capacity of, i. 139 Finland, Russian annexation of, i. 5, 12, 41; Russian frontier, i. 8 _n._, 9; her aims for autonomy, i. 42 Fortresses, work on the, i. 126–130 France: her struggles with Russia, i. 10; strength of her army, i. 15; cause of Franco-Russian _entente_, i. 46; lessons from the Franco-German War, i. 78–81 Friederichsham, Treaty of, i. 40, 41 Frontiers (see Russia), Russian, i. 8 _n._, 35, 40–77 Galicia, strategic value of, i. 54, 55 Geok Tepe, Russian attack on, i. 31, 85, 148 Georgia, Russian annexation of, i. 8 Germany: war with Napoleon, i. 10; her Russian frontier, i. 44, 45; her Russian trade, i. 45, 59; her strategic preparations, i. 46–49; possibilities of war, i. 49, 50; trade in Persia, i. 59, 60; lessons from the Franco-German War, i. 79, 80; her relative speed of mobilization, i. 90; her perfect organization, i. 103, 113; her military expenditure, i. 112, 113 Gerngros, General: the Boxer Rebellion, i. 155; wounded at Te-li-ssu, i. 219; the battle near Mukden, ii. 278, 279, 293, 297 Giers, M., Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the cession of Kuldja, i. 93 Glinski, M., _The Resurrected Dead_, i. 292 Godunoff, Boris, and the Caspian Sea, i. 4 Goltz, Von der, a distinguished German writer, his dictum on war, i. 88 Gorbatoff, M., _Thoughts Suggested by Recent Military Operations_, ii. 75, 76