Battle of Nanshan

Battle of Nanshan
	Part of the Russo-Japanese War
	; Japanese assault on the Russian trenches during an lightning storm
Date	24–26 May 1904
Location	North of Port Arthur, Manchuria
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
Empire of Japan	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Oku Yasukata	Anatoly Stessel; Mitrofan Nadein; Alexander Fok; Nikolai Tretyakov; Aliagha Shikhlinski
Strength
35,500 to 40,000	3,800 13,000 to 17,000 in all (did not take part in the battle);
Casualties and losses
6,198 killed, wounded or captured	1,616; 182 killed; 836 wounded; 598 missing

The Battle of Nanshan (南山の戦い, Nanzan no tatakai), also known as the battle of Jinzhou or Chinchou (Russian: Сражение при Цзинь-чжоу/Кинь-чжоу), was one of many vicious land battles of the Russo-Japanese War. It took place on 24–26 May 1904 across a two-mile-wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116-meter high Nanshan Hill, the present-day Jinzhou District, north of the city center of Dalian, Liaoning, China.