Battle of Mukden

Battle of Mukden
Part of the Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese assault the Russian ramparts in the battle of Mukden
Date 20 February – 10 March 1905 Location South of Mukden (modern Shenyang), Manchuria Result Japanese victory Territorial changes Japanese occupy all of southern Manchuria Russian forces retreat to northern Manchuria
Belligerents
Empire of Japan	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Field Marshal Ōyama Iwao	General Alexei Kuropatkin
Strength
281,000 troops 500 artillery pieces	343,000 troops 800 artillery pieces
Casualties and losses
75,504 total: 15,892 killed 59,612 wounded	88,352 total: 8,705 killed 51,438 wounded 28,209 MIA, of those 22,000 fell into captivity

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The Battle of Mukden (奉天会戦, Hōten kaisen^?), one of the largest land battles to be fought before World War I and the last and the most decisive major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, was fought from 20 February to 10 March 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria. The city is now called Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in China.

The Russian forces, numbering more than 340,000, under General Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin, fought the attacking Imperial Japanese Army forces numbering more than 280,000, led by Marshal Marquess Ōyama Iwao. Involving nearly 625,000 combat participants and 164,000 combatant casualties, it was the largest modern-era battle fought prior to World War I, and possibly the largest battle in world history up to that point.

Following the Battle of Liaoyang (24 August to 4 September 1904), Russian forces retreated to the river Sha Ho south of Mukden and regrouped. From 5 October 1904 to 17 October 1904, during the Battle of Shaho, the Russians unsuccessfully counter-attacked, but managed to temporarily slow the Japanese advance.

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