page_title: Battle of Tientsin
section_title: Casualties
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Tientsin / Casualties
caption_attribution_description: English: Nianhua print: Dong Fuxiang's victory Dong Fuxiang's victory at Beicang A great victory was achieved on August 1 (converted from the lunar calendar) on the outskirts of Tianjin by Dong Fuxiang's forces, presumably harrying the foreign forces that were assembling there to march to Peking and relieve the siege. The joint force took time to assemble (the British were concurrently preoccupied with the Boer War) and even longer to organise itself due to internal rivalries. When it did set out, on August 4, it moved swiftly and decisively through Boxer and imperial army resistance.
context_page_description: The Battle of Tientsin, or the Relief of Tientsin, occurred on July 13–14, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in Northern China. A multinational military force, representing the Eight-Nation Alliance, rescued a besieged population of foreign nationals in the city of Tientsin by defeating the Chinese Imperial army and Boxers. The capture of Tientsin gave the Eight-Nation Alliance a base to launch a rescue mission for the foreign nationals besieged in the Legation Quarter of Peking and to capture Beijing in the Battle of Peking.
context_section_description: For the Eight-Nation Alliance, Tientsin was the bloodiest battle of the Boxer Rebellion. Two hundred and fifty soldiers of the allied armies were killed and about 500 wounded. The Japanese lost 320 killed and wounded; the Russians and Germans 140 killed and wounded; the Americans 25 killed, and 98 wounded; the British, 17 killed and 87 wounded; and the French 13 killed and 50 wounded. Casualties for the Chinese Army and the Boxers are unknown.
caption: Dong Fuxiang's Muslim troops fighting Allied forces at Beicang outside of Tianjin
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