Battle of Sandepu
| Battle of Sandepu (Battle of Heikoutai) | |||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Japanese War | |||||||
Contemporary Russian postcard | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Empire of Japan | Russian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ōyama Iwao Oku Yasukata Tatsumi Naofumi |
Aleksey Kuropatkin Oskar Grippenberg | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Second Army | Second Manchurian Army | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 40,000 | 375,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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9,511
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13,963
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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.