Note 95 — INTRODUCTORY
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In 1861, when some Russian marines landed here and took virtual possession of the islands, Awa Katsu, who was then one of the officers appointed by the Yedo government to study the possibility of organizing military forces after the Western model, succeeded in setting the British Minister against the Russian Minister about the Tsushima affair. Russia was obliged to abandon the islands. See the Katsu Kaishū (a life of Katsu), Tokio, 1899, iii. pp. 57–59.