Battle of Liaoyang

Battle of Liaoyang
	Part of the Russo-Japanese War
	; Battle of Liao Yang by Fritz Neumann
Date	25 August – 3 September 1904
Location	South of Liaoyang, China41°47′44″N 123°26′53″E
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Empire of Japan	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ōyama Iwao; Kuroki Tamemoto; Oku Yasukata; Nozu Michitsura	Aleksey Kuropatkin; Georgii Stackelberg; Nikolai Zarubaev; Alexandr von Bilderling
Strength
115 battalions, 33 squadrons, 484 guns 127,360 men	208.5 battalions, 153 squadrons, 673 guns, 245,300 men
Casualties and losses
22,922 5,537 killed; 18,603 wounded;	19,112 3,611 killed; 14,301 wounded;

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.

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