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Battle of Sandepu (Battle of Heikoutai)
Part of the Russo-Japanese War
Contemporary Russian postcard
Date
25 January – 29 January 1905
Location
South of Mukden, Manchuria
Result
Inconclusive
Belligerents
Empire of Japan
Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ōyama Iwao Oku Yasukata Tatsumi Naofumi
Aleksey Kuropatkin Oskar Grippenberg
Units involved
Second Army
Second Manchurian Army
Strength
40,000[1]
75,000[1]
Casualties and losses
9,511[2]
1,848 killed
7,421 wounded
242 captured
13,963
1,727 killed
11,123 wounded
1,113 MIA[3]
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Russo-Japanese War
Naval battles
1st Port Arthur
Chemulpo Bay
Hitachi Maru convoy
Yellow Sea
Ulsan
Korsakov
Dogger Bank incident
Tsushima
Land battles
Yalu River
Nanshan
Te-li-Ssu
Motien Pass
Tashihchiao
2nd Port Arthur
Hsimucheng
Liaoyang
Shaho
Sandepu
Mukden
Sakhalin
The Battle of Sandepu (also known as the Battle of Heikoutai) (Japanese: 黒溝台会戦 (Kokkōdai no kaisen), Russian: Сражение при Сандепу) was a major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought within a group of villages about 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Mukden, Manchuria.[4]
^ abDowling 2014, p. 761.
^Clodfelter 2017, p. 359.
^Russian Main Military Medical Directorate (Glavnoe Voenno-Sanitarnoe Upravlenie) statistical report. 1914.
^Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, pp. 342–343.
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