August 25 – September 3, 1904 · Manchuria Theater
August 25 – September 3, 1904
The largest battle of the war to that point, Liaoyang saw three Japanese armies converge on the major Russian base. Kuropatkin's forces initially held strong defensive positions, even launching limited counterattacks. But when General Kuroki's First Army succeeded in crossing the Taitzu River north of the city and threatened the Russian line of retreat, Kuropatkin ordered a withdrawal to Mukden. The retreat, though conducted in reasonable order, was a major strategic defeat that ceded southern Manchuria to Japan.
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