Russo-Japanese War

I. Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 20 Jan 1902

II. Surprise attack on Port Arthur, 17 Jan/9 Feb 1904

III. Dogger Bank Incident, 21 Oct 1904

IV. Revolution of 1905, 22 Jan 1905

A. Bloody Sunday

V. Treaty of Portsmouth, Aug 1905

Britain in India

I. British East India Company

A. “the strangest of all governments designed for the strangest of all empires”--Macaulay

B. “forward policy”

1) Ranji Singh in the Punjab

2) Anglo-Afghan Wars

II. Sepoy Mutiny, 1857

III. Costs and contributions of India to Empire

Russia in Central Asia

I. Straits convention of Treaty of Paris, 1856

II. Strategic and trading interests

III. Russia’s Asian heritage

IV. Transcaspian Railway construction

V. Russian designs on India?

Afghanistan, the buffer state

I. “Mervousness” and the Afghan Boundary Commission

II. Pamirs Crisis, 1891-2

III. Afghan succession crisis, 1901

Persia, the buffer state

I. Russian interests and influence

II. British interests

Tibet, the buffer state

I. British border protectorates of Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal

II. Agvan Dorjiev, the Buriat tutor

III. Younghusband Expedition, 1904

The Rapprochement

I. The Boer War, the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance

II. The Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution

III. Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 Aug 1907