Battle of Shaho

Battle of Shaho
Part of the Russo-Japanese War

The Battle of Shaho by Franz Roubaud
Date5–17 October 1904
Location
South of Mukden on the Sha River, Manchuria
Result See § Aftermath
Belligerents
Japan Russia
Commanders and leaders
Ōyama Iwao
Kuroki Tamemoto
Oku Yasukata
Nozu Michitsura
Umezawa Michiharu
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Strength
120,000–170,000 210,000–220,000
Casualties and losses

21,125

  • 4,099 killed
  • 16,398 wounded
  • 628 captured

41,351

  • 5,084 killed
  • 30,506 wounded
  • 4,869 MIA

The Battle of Shaho (Japanese: 沙河会戦 (Saka no kaisen), Russian: Сражение на реке Шахе) was the second large-scale land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile (60 km) front centered at the Shaho River along the MukdenPort Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria.