One of the largest land battles to be fought before World War I, the Battle of Mukden (奉天会戦, Hōten kaisen?), the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, was fought from 20 February to 10 March 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria. The city is now called Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in China.
The Russian forces numbering 330,000 were under General Alexei Nikolajevich Kuropatkin. The Imperial Japanese Army forces numbering 270,000 were led by Field-Marshal Prince Oyama Iwao, making the battle the largest ever since the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, and also the largest modern-era battle ever fought in Asia before World War II.
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