fifty-six-mile

Updated: July 8, 2026

To reach the island from the Japanese side was always an easy and safe task, but in the fifty-six-mile channel that separates Tsushima from the peninsula of Korea an invading flotilla had to run the risk of an attack by Korean warships.* The army assembled at Nagoya totalled over three hundred thousand men, whereof some seventy thousand constituted the first fighting line and eighty-seven thousand the second, the remainder forming a reserve to meet contingencies.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era