Battle of Langfang

Battle of Langfang
	Part of Seymour Expedition
	; Troops of the Eight Nations firing on Chinese Boxers as depicted by Frank Craig and Harpers Weekly Magazine
Date	18 June 1900
Location	Langfang, China
Result	Qing government pro-Boxer faction victory
Belligerents
British Empire; United States; France; Russia; Germany; Italy; Austria-Hungary; Japan	Qing China; Boxer movement
Commanders and leaders
Edward Seymour; Guido von Usedom; Arthur MacArthur III; Régis Voyron; Georg von Trapp; Nikolay Leontiev; Augusto Aubry; Katō Sadakichi	Dong Fuxiang; Ma Fulu; Ma Fuxiang; Ma Haiyan; Nie Shicheng; Yao Wang; Ni Zanqing
Strength
916; 540; 312; 158; 112; 54; 40; 25; 2,157 total	3,000 Muslim Kansu Braves; 2,000 Boxers
Casualties and losses
Contemporary Western claims: 7 killed, 57 wounded	Contemporary Western claims: 400 killed

The Battle of Langfang (Chinese: 廊坊阻擊戰) took place during the Seymour Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion, in June 1900,^[1] involving Chinese imperial troops, the Chinese Muslim Kansu Braves and Boxers ambushing and defeating the Eight-Nation Alliance expeditionary army on its way to Beijing, pushing the Alliance forces to retreat back to Tientsin (Tianjin). The Alliance force at Langfang consisted of Germans.^[2]

^ Elleman, Bruce A.; Paine, S.C.M., eds. (2007). Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cass Series: Naval Policy and History. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1135985349.
^ Leonhard, Robert R (2011). "The China Relief Expedition Joint Coalition Warfare in China Summer 1900" (PDF). The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

[1] Elleman, Bruce A.; Paine, S.C.M., eds. (2007). Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cass Series: Naval Policy and History. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1135985349.

[2] Leonhard, Robert R (2011). "The China Relief Expedition Joint Coalition Warfare in China Summer 1900" (PDF). The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

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