Battle of Tientsin

Battle of Tientsin
Part of the Boxer Rebellion

Japanese soldiers capturing Tianjin
Date14 July 1900
Location
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
 Japan
 Russia
 British Empire
 United States
 France
 German Empire
 Italy
 Austria-Hungary
 Qing China
Boxers
Commanders and leaders
Russian Empire Anatoly Stessel (WIA)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Arthur Dorward
United States Emerson Liscum 
United States A. R. Davis 
Qing dynasty Nie Shicheng 
Qing dynasty Dong Fuxiang
Qing dynasty Ronglu
Cao Futian
Lin Hei'er (POW)[1]
Strength
6,900 Allied soldiers
20 field guns
4,933 cavalry
Casualties and losses

250 killed, 500 wounded

  • Empire of Japan 320 killed and wounded
  • United States 25 killed, 98 wounded
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 17 killed, 87 wounded
  • French Third Republic 13 killed, 90 wounded
  • German Empire and Russian Empire 140 killed and wounded
Unknown
Battle of Tientsin
Traditional Chinese天津之戰
Simplified Chinese天津之战
Literal meaningBattle of Tianjin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTiānjīn zhī zhàn
Wade–GilesT'ien'chin chih chan

The Battle of Tientsin, or the Relief of Tientsin, occurred on 13–14 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in Northern China. A multinational military force, representing the Eight-Nation Alliance, rescued a besieged population of foreign nationals in the city of Tianjin (Postal: Tientsin) by defeating the Chinese Imperial army and Boxers. The capture of Tianjin gave the Eight-Nation Alliance a base to launch a rescue mission for the foreign nationals besieged in the Legation Quarter of Beijing and to capture Beijing.

The region of Tianjin (then romanized as Tientsin) and Beijing (then romanized as Peking).
  1. ^ "Lin Hei'er – head of the Red Lantern Unit – ColorQ Articles Etc". www.colorq.org. Retrieved 13 January 2019.