Battle of Sandepu

Battle of Sandepu (Battle of Heikoutai)
Part of the Russo-Japanese War

Contemporary Russian postcard
Date25 January – 29 January 1905
Location
South of Mukden, Manchuria
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
 Empire of Japan  Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ōyama Iwao
Oku Yasukata
Tatsumi Naofumi		 Aleksey Kuropatkin
Oskar Grippenberg
Units involved
Second Army Second Manchurian Army
Strength
40,000[1] 75,000[1]
Casualties and losses

9,511[2]

  • 1,848 killed
  • 7,421 wounded
  • 242 captured

13,963

  • 1,727 killed
  • 11,123 wounded
  • 1,113 MIA[3]

The Battle of Sandepu (also known as the Battle of Heikoutai) (Japanese: 黒溝台会戦 (Kokkōdai no kaisen), Russian: Сражение при Сандепу) was a major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought within a group of villages about 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Mukden, Manchuria.[4]

  1. ^ a b Dowling 2014, p. 761.
  2. ^ Clodfelter 2017, p. 359.
  3. ^ Russian Main Military Medical Directorate (Glavnoe Voenno-Sanitarnoe Upravlenie) statistical report. 1914.
  4. ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, pp. 342–343.