With the Cossacks: Being the Story of an Irisman who Rode with the Cossacks Throughout the Russo-Japanese War

Francis McCullagh (1874 - 1956) was a British journalist, war correspondent and author.

McCullagh was born in Dungannon in Northern Ireland in 1874. He worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald, from 1898. In 1903 he was living in Japan, working for the English language newspaper The Japan Times. Observing the growing tension between the Empire of Japan and Russian Empire, he studied the Russian language, and moved to Port Arthur, the major Russian military base in Manchuria in 1904. Obtaining a post as a for the Novi Kraï (New Land) newspaper of Port Arthur, at the start of the Russo-Japanese War he became a non-military observer embedded within the Imperial Russian Army. At war's end, he was evacuated in March 1905 as a prisoner of war, traveling from Dalny to Ujina on the Nippon Yusen liner Awa Maru. His experiences were published in 1906 as With the Cossacks; Being the Story of an Irishman who Rode with the Cossacks throughout the Russo-Japanese War.

CONTENTS
PART I
IN PORT ARTHUR
I. From Tokio To Port Arthur
II. Life In Port Arthur
III. The Gathering Clouds
IV. On Board The "columbia"
V. Inside Port Arthur

PART II
WITH THE ARMY
I. I Join Mishchenko
II. Before Mishchenko's Raid
III. A Christmas With The Cossacks
IV. Mishchenko's Raid
V. How I Left Mishchenko
VI. The Battle Of Sandypu
VII. Mukden Before The Battle
VIII. The Battle Of Mukden
IX. March I And March
X. A Vast Vodka Debauch
XI. General Kuropatkin’s Train
XII. March 5, 6 and 7
XIII. The Retreat from Mukden
XIV. Our Capture .
XV. Face To Face With Kuroki
XVI. Back To Liaoyang .
XVII. From Liaoyang To Dalny
XVIII. From Dalny To Japan As A Prisoner Of War


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