✦ History

Part of Russo-Japanese War

Battle of Liaoyang

August 25 – September 5, 1904 · Battle of Liaoyang

Result Japanese victory

First great field battle of the war; Kuropatkin withdrew from Liaoyang to Mukden.

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Japan

Russia

Japan
Russian Empire
Ōyama Iwao military commander Kuroki Tamemoto military commander Oku Yasukata military commander
Alexei Kuropatkin military commander Georg von Stackelberg military commander Nikolai Zarubaev military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
135,000c. 135,000
Casualties
17,500
Guns
552c. 552
Strength
149,000–158,000
Casualties
19,112c. 16,600
Killed
3,611
Wounded
14,301
Guns
673c. 542

Units

First Army (Japan) 2nd Division (Japan) Fourth Army (Japan) Second Army (Japan)
Manchurian Army 1st Siberian Army Corps

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