Battle of Tientsin

Battle of Tientsin
Battle of Tientsin
Traditional Chinese	天津之戰
Simplified Chinese	天津之战
Literal meaning	Battle of Tianjin
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tiānjīn zhī zhàn
Wade–Giles	T'ien'chin chih chan

Battle of Tientsin
	Part of the Boxer Rebellion
	; Japanese soldiers capturing Tianjin
Date	14 July 1900
Location	Tianjin, China
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
Japan; Russia; British Empire; United States; France; German Empire; Italy; Austria-Hungary	Qing China; Boxers
Commanders and leaders
Anatoly Stessel (WIA); Arthur Dorward; Emerson Liscum †; A. R. Davis †	Nie Shicheng †; Dong Fuxiang; Ronglu; Cao Futian; Lin Hei'er (POW)
Strength
6,900 Allied soldiers; 20 field guns; 4,933 cavalry	12,000 soldiers 10,000 Tenacious Army; 2,000 Kansu Braves; ; 17,000 number of Boxers, including many Red Lanterns;
Casualties and losses
250 killed, 500 wounded 320 killed and wounded; 25 killed, 98 wounded; 17 killed, 87 wounded; 13 killed, 90 wounded; and 140 killed and wounded;	Unknown

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.

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