Battle of Nanshan

Battle of Nanshan
Part of the Russo-Japanese War
Japanese assault on the entrenched Russian forces, 1904 at the Battle of Nanshan
Date 24–26 May 1904[a] Location North of Port Arthur, Manchuria Result Pyrrhic Japanese victory
Belligerents
Empire of Japan	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Oku Yasukata	Anatoly Stessel Mitrofan Nadein Alexander Fok Nikolai Tretyakov
Strength
35,500	3,800 17,000 in all
Casualties and losses
6,198 killed, wounded or captured	182 killed 836 wounded 598 Missing in action[1]

The Battle of Nanshan (南山の戦い, Nanzan no tatakai), also known as the battle of Jinzhou or Chinchou (Russian: Сражение при Цзинь-чжоу/Кинь-чжоу^[2]), was one of many vicious land battles of the Russo-Japanese War. It took place on 24–26 May 1904 across a two-mile-wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116-meter high Nanshan Hill, the present-day Jinzhou District, north of the city center of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

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