Battle of Tsushima

The Battle of Tsushima was the last and most decisive sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. It was fought on May 27–28, 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky. It was the largest and only major naval engagement fought by pre-dreadnought battleships, and the only sea battle in history in which steel battleships fought a decisive fleet action.

Historian Edmund Morris calls it the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

Battle of Tsushima in Days of Infamy
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had taken part in this battle, losing the first two fingers of his left hand. During the war with the United States, he constantly fought for a decisive battle, one reminiscent of the Battle of Tsushima in order to finally force the United States to the negotiating table. Alas, he nor any other fleet commander was able to do this.