The Chinese battleships <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_ironclad_Dingyuan" class="extiw" title="en:Chinese ironclad Dingyuan">Dingyuan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_ironclad_Zhenyuan" class="extiw" title="en:Chinese ironclad Zhenyuan">Zhenyuan</a> come under fire from the Japanese fleet at the 1894 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yalu_River_(1894)" class="extiw" title="en:Battle of the Yalu River (1894)">Battle of the Yalu River</a>.
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