Battle of Langfang

Battle of Langfang
Part of Seymour Expedition
Troops of the Eight Nations firing on Chinese Boxers as depicted by Frank Craig and Harpers Weekly Magazine
Date 18 June 1900 Location Langfang, China Result Qing government pro-Boxer faction victory
Belligerents
British Empire  United States  France  Russia  Germany  Italy  Austria-Hungary  Japan	Qing China Boxer movement
Commanders and leaders
Edward Seymour Guido von Usedom Arthur MacArthur III Régis Voyron Georg von Trapp Nikolay Leontiev Augusto Aubry Katō Sadakichi	Dong Fuxiang Ma Fulu Ma Fuxiang Ma Haiyan Nie Shicheng Yao Wang Ni Zanqing
Strength
916 540 312 158 112 54 40 25 2,157 total	3,000 Muslim Kansu Braves 2,000 Boxers
Casualties and losses
Contemporary Western claims: 7 killed, 57 wounded	Contemporary Western claims: 400 killed

The Battle of Langfang (Chinese: 廊坊阻擊戰) took place during the Seymour Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion, in June 1900,^[1] involving Chinese imperial troops, the Chinese Muslim Kansu Braves and Boxers ambushing and defeating the Eight-Nation Alliance expeditionary army on its way to Beijing, pushing the Alliance forces to retreat back to Tientsin (Tianjin).