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Battle of Sandepu (Battle of Heikoutai) | |||||||
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Part of the Russo-Japanese War | |||||||
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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]
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13,963 |
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]