Battle of Liaoyang
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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.[7]
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Battle of Liaoyang | |||||||
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Part of the Russo-Japanese War | |||||||
Battle of Liao Yang by Fritz Neumann | |||||||
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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 | ||||||
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115 battalions, 33 squadrons, 484 guns[1][2] 127,360 men | 208.5 battalions, 153 squadrons, 673 guns,[1][3] 245,300 men[4] | ||||||
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22,922[5]
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19,112[6]
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