Rival commanders at Liao-Yang, and the great operations of august 31 to september 3 The exploit of Skrydloff’s command: the controlling spirit. Before Port Arthur a second time: marshal Oyama, commander of the Japanese field forces. Kuropatkin’s new colleague: the commander of the second Manchurian army. “Commanding the Baltic squadron”: admiral Rozhdestvensky Kuropatkin’s successor and commander: general Linievitch, appointed to the command of the Manchurian forces. King Ferdinand’s sword-arm: the Bulgarian commander-in-chief.
