Battle of Tientsin

Battle of Tientsin
Part of the Boxer Rebellion
Japanese soldiers capturing Tianjin
Date 14 July 1900 Location Tianjin, China Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Japan  Russia  British Empire  United States  France  German Empire  Italy  Austria-Hungary	Qing China Boxers
Commanders and leaders
Anatoly Stessel (WIA) Arthur Dorward Emerson Liscum † A. R. Davis †	Nie Shicheng † Dong Fuxiang Ronglu Cao Futian Lin Hei'er (POW)[1]
Strength
6,900 Allied soldiers 20 field guns 4,933 cavalry	12,000 soldiers 10,000 Tenacious Army 2,000 Kansu Braves 17,000 number of Boxers, including many Red Lanterns
Casualties and losses
250 killed, 500 wounded 320 killed and wounded 25 killed, 98 wounded 17 killed, 87 wounded 13 killed, 90 wounded and 140 killed and wounded	Unknown

The Battle of Tientsin, or the Relief of Tientsin, occurred on 13–14 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in Northern China. A multinational military force, representing the Eight-Nation Alliance, rescued a besieged population of foreign nationals in the city of Tianjin (Postal: Tientsin) by defeating the Chinese Imperial army and Boxers. The capture of Tianjin gave the Eight-Nation Alliance a base to launch a rescue mission for the foreign nationals besieged in the Legation Quarter of Beijing and to capture Beijing.