(from Wikipedia)
The surrender
"With the death of General Kondratenko on December 15, 1904, at Fort Chikuan,
Stoessel appointed the incompetent Foch in his place.
On December 18, 1904,
the Japanese exploded an 1,800-kilogram (3,968-pound) mine under
Fort Chikuan,
which fell that night.
On December 28, 1904,
mines under
Fort Erhlung
were detonated, destroying that fort as well.
On December 31, 1904,
a series of mines were exploded under
Fort Sungshu,
the sole surviving major fortress, which surrendered that day.
On January 1, 1905,
Wantai
finally fell to the Japanese.
On the same day,
Stoessel and Foch
sent a message to a surprised General Nogi,
offering to surrender.
None of the other senior Russian staff had been consulted, and
notably
Smirnov and Tretyakov
were outraged.
The surrender was accepted and signed
on January 5, 1905,
in the northern suburb of Shuishiying.
With this, the Russian garrison was taken into captivity,
and civilians were allowed to leave,
but the Russian officers were given the choice of
either going into prisoner-of-war camps with their men
or being given parole on the promise of taking no further part in the war.
The Japanese
were astounded to find that
a huge store of food and ammunition
remained in Port Arthur,
which implied that
Stoessel
had surrendered long before the fight was over.
Stoessel, Foch and Smirnov
were court-martialed
on their return to St Petersburg.
As for Nogi, after leaving a garrison in Port Arthur, he led the surviving bulk of his army of 120,000 men north to join Marshal Oyama at the Battle of Mukden."
(from Wikipedia)
Losses
Russian losses
"Russian land forces in the course of the siege suffered
31,306 casualties,
of whom
at least 6,000 were killed.
Lower figures such as
15,000 killed, wounded, and missing are sometimes claimed.
At the end of the siege,
the Japanese captured
a further
878 army officers and
23,491 other ranks;
15,000 of those captured were wounded.
The Japanese also captured
546 guns and
82,000 artillery shells.
In addition
the Russians lost their
entire fleet based at Port Arthur,
which was either sunk or interned.
The Japanese captured 8,956 seamen.
Japanese losses
The Japanese army casualties
were later officially listed as
57,780 casualties (killed, wounded and missing),
of whom
14,000 were killed.
In addition
33,769 became sick during the siege
(including
21,023 with beriberi).
The Japanese navy
lost 16 ships in the course of the siege,
including two battleships and four cruisers.
There were higher estimates of
Japanese army casualties
at the time such as
94,000 -110,000 killed, wounded, and missing,
though these were written without access
to the Japanese Medical History of the War."
(from Wikipedia)
Aftermath
2004 Russian stamp "100th anniversary of the heroic defence of Port Arthur" showing the military decoration, the Port Arthur Cross
The capture of Port Arthur and the subsequent Japanese victories at the Battle of Mukden and Tsushima gave Japan a dominant military position, resulting in favorable arbitration by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the war.
The loss of the war in 1905 led to major political unrest in Imperial Russia (see: Russian revolution of 1905).
Resource: Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Arthur
The final end.
Later,
The Port Arthur returned back to be a part of China land as Chineese
Lüda" (Luda, Lyuda, Louda), Dalian
as Lüshunkou District / Lushunkou District / Lyushunkou District in China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüshunkou_District
Also known as
Lüshun Port / Lushun Port / Lyushun Port
Also known as
Port Arthur / Port Artur / Порт-Артур (on Russian) / Порт Артур (on Russian)
Also known as
Ryojun (from Japan)
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So, plenty died wounded soldiers from two side of a war conflict
as the final result, plenty died men from all sides of this conflict 1904-1905 year.
Russians had a loss of the trust to their power and highest social class ability, which moved Russians to Revolution 190, Revolution 1917, and the end of Russian Empair and all social classes, plenty people had been killed after already in Russian land via Revolutions, with a losses of lives and properties.
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But this old conflict had some hidden stories and facts and secrets.
There were not plenty poems about this as patriotic poem to up, as usual style of any war, and just one poem had been known.
(Please, compare to poems of WWII times and poems during Port Arthur battles).
May be, some Russian felt as wrong to attack other lands of another country? As Jesus Christis asked never to take other people property in own pocket?
But it was some more hidden secrets and some secret information.
The fight for a town named as Port Arthur in a name of some British man? a Noble British man? British? English-speaking man from far away country?
Russian town Ekaterenburg, Peterburg were on names of Russian Royalty, - Russian Tsarina Ekaterina II, Russian Tsar Peter The Great, people, whom ruled as a main power.
Look, this is a great misery, mistic story to see to find a huge loss of Russian military Army and Navy staff as a fight for whom, really? For a town of Arthur? Port Arthur town? named to honor some ENGLISH-SPEAKING MAN FROM ENGLAND? British man?
Military people, The Artmy, The Fleet, they fight always for their own state, country, for their own TOP POLITICIANS IN POLITICAL POWER.
This fight of Russian military men and Russian navy men for a town Port Arthur as for their own town with name of their own country and state, had oppened a hidden secret of some hidden history about some state and a country where Arthur was a name of the Top Politician, ruled as Royal.