Battle of Beitang

Battle of Beitang
	Part of the Boxer Rebellion
Date	20 September 1900
Location	Beitang, China
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
Russia; German Empire; France	Qing Dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Georg von Stackelberg; Lothar von Trotha; Alfred-Amédée Dodds	Dong Fuxiang; Jiang Guiti; Ma Yukun
Strength
14,000 Russian soldiers; 16,000 German marines; 12,000 French soldiers	21,000 Chinese soldiers
Casualties and losses
845 killed; 967 wounded	Heavy

The Battle of Beitang, during the Boxer Rebellion, was fought on September 20, 1900 between the Eight Nation Alliance and the Great Qing army.

Background

Beitang is 5 mi (8.0 km) north of Tianjin. It was necessary to capture Beitang for organising railway connection between Tianjin and Manchuria.

During the night, Russian troops captured a Chinese position near the destroyed Beitang railway station, and built several batteries. In the morning, Russian and German cannons began to bombard the fortress, and at 10 a.m. the Chinese garrison fled. At noon, the fortress was captured without fighting.

Notes

Sources

Д.Г.Янчевецкий "У стен недвижного Китая". Санкт-Петербург - Порт-Артур, 1903 (D.G.Yanchevetskiy "Near the Walls of unmoving China", Sankt-Peterburg - Port-Artur, 1903)
В. Г. Дацышен «Русско-китайская война 1900 года. Поход на Пекин» — СПБ, 1999. ISBN 5-8172-0011-2 (V.G.Datsishen "Russo-chinese war of 1900. March to Beijing", Sankt-Peterburg, 1999)

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