The correct answer to this open question is the following.
A consequence of the 1894 naval war between Japan and China was that a strong Japanese Army defeated the Chinese troops, and Japan started to increase imperialistic ideals.
During the First Sino-Japanese War that started in July 1894 fight for the control of the Korean peninsula. In China, the Qing Dynasty wanted to control Korea but the Japanese Empire had a more modern and well-trained military and ended up winning the war.
Sino-Japanese WarThe Chinese battleship Zhenyuan captured by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese War, 1895. In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the conflict, China recognized the independence of Korea and ceded Taiwan, the adjoining Pescadores, and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria.
His reaction was to fight and he sent his red coated army the loyalists away to fight the patriots. In the end, the patriots won which was good because they were on the American side. ;)
