Battle of Shaho

Battle of Shaho
	Part of the Russo-Japanese War
	; The Battle of Shaho by Franz Roubaud
Date	5–17 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
Japan	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;

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.

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