THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEA ON THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF JAPAN
                             BY VICE-ADMIRAL G.A BALLARD, C.B
               
    Not even Nelson,Blake, or Jean Bart could have done....

   This was the great Korean admiral's crowning exploit.
   
   Succeses unsurpassed in the whole annals of maritime war, destroying the enemy's battle-fleets, cutting his lines of communication, sweeping up his conveys, imperilling the situation of his victorious armies in the field, and bringing his most ambitious schemes to utter ruin.

   Not even Nelson, Blake, or Jean Bart could have done more than this scarcely known representative of a small and often cruelly representative of a small and often cruelly oppressed nation; and it is to be regretted that his memory lingers nowher outside his native land, for no impartial judge could deny him the right to be accounted among the born leader of men