Tongxiao, Taiwan

From atop Tiger Head Mountain on Taiwan’s in any other case flat western coast, colonial Japanese troopers as soon as scanned the Taiwan Strait, which runs clear to the horizon. Their persistence was rewarded in 1905 when the czar’s Baltic Fleet steamed into view, heading to battle in Chinese language Manchuria. After a seven-month voyage to the Pacific, Russia’s mighty navy was sunk in lower than two days.