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Battle of Liaoyang -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The Battle of Liaoyang (August 24, 1904 - September 4, 1904) was one of the major battles of the (Japanese victory in the war with Russia (1904-1905) gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria) Russo-Japanese War. |
 | | It was fought on the (A city in northeastern China) Mukden– (A battle in the Chino-Japanese war (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese) Port Arthur railway, south of the confluence of the Taizu and Liao rivers in (A region in northeastern China) Manchuria. |
 | | The battle began on August 25 with the Russian armies, 150,000 strong, attemping to turn the flanks of the Japanese First, Second and Third Armies totaling 125,000 men. |
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