First major land battle of the Russo-Japanese war
Battle of Liaoyang |
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Part of the Russo-Japanese War |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Battle_of_Liao_Yang.jpg/300px-Battle_of_Liao_Yang.jpg) Battle of Liao Yang by Fritz Neumann |
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Belligerents |
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Empire of Japan |
Russian Empire |
Commanders and leaders |
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Ōyama Iwao
Kuroki Tamemoto
Oku Yasukata
Nozu Michitsura |
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Georgii Stackelberg
Nikolai Zarubaev
Alexandr von Bilderling |
Strength |
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115 battalions, 33 squadrons, 484 guns[1][2] 127,360 men |
208.5 battalions, 153 squadrons, 673 guns,[1][3] 245,300 men[4] |
Casualties and losses |
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22,922[5]
- 5,537 killed
- 18,603 wounded
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19,112[6]
- 3,611 killed
- 14,301 wounded
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The Battle of Liaoyang (遼陽会戦, Ryōyō-kaisen, 25 August – 3 September 1904) (Russian: Сражение при Ляояне) was a major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, on the outskirts of the city of Liaoyang in present-day Liaoning Province, China. The city was of great strategic importance as the major Russian military center for southern Manchuria, and a major population center on the main line on the Russian South Manchurian Railway connecting Port Arthur with Mukden. The city was fortified by the Imperial Russian Army with three lines of fortifications.[7]
- ^ a b The Official history of the Russo-Japanese War / prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence Part IV p 12
- ^ Русско-японская война 1904–1905 гг., т. 3, ч. 2. с. 257.
- ^ Русско-японская война 1904–1905 гг., т. 3, ч. 2. с. 270.
- ^ Свод материалов к отчету по интендантской части за время войны с Японией" стр. 398–399. табл. #30
- ^ The Official history of the Russo-Japanese War / prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence Part IV App D
- ^ The Official history of the Russo-Japanese War / prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence Part IV p 115
- ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, pp. 205–208.