Battle of Shaho

Battle of Shaho
Part of the Russo-Japanese War

The Battle of Shaho by Franz Roubaud
Date5–17 October 1904
Location
South of Mukden on the Sha River, Manchuria
Result

Aftermath

Strategically Inconclusive

  • Russians recapture One Tree-Hill

Japanese Tactical victory

  • Japanese advance 25km on the road to Mukden
  • Japans blocks a major Russian counter-offense
  • Effectively ended any hope of relieving the Siege of Port Arthur by land.
Belligerents
Empire of Japan Japan Russia Russia
Commanders and leaders
Ōyama Iwao
Kuroki Tamemoto
Oku Yasukata
Nozu Michitsura
Umezawa Michiharu		 Aleksey Kuropatkin
Strength
120,000–170,000 210,000–220,000
Casualties and losses

21,125

  • 4,099 killed
  • 16,398 wounded
  • 628 captured

41,351

  • 5,084 killed
  • 30,506 wounded
  • 4,869 MIA[1]

The Battle of Shaho (Japanese: 沙河会戦 (Saka no kaisen), Russian: Сражение на реке Шахе) was the second large-scale land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile (60 km) front centered at the Shaho River along the Mukden–Port Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria.[2]

  1. ^ Russian Main Military Medical Directorate (Glavnoe Voenno-Sanitarnoe Upravlenie) statistical report. 1914.
  2. ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, pp. 347–350.