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The '''Battle of Shanghai''' ({{zh-tspl|t=淞滬會戰|s=淞沪会战|p=Sōnghù Huìzhàn|l=Battle at the ports of Shanghai}}; [[Japanese Language|Japanese]]: 第二次上海事变変), also known as the '''Defence of Shanghai''' was the first of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Some Japanese sources call the battle '''Second Shanghai Incident''', but instead it signified the beginning of an all-out war between the two countries, not just some "incidents". The battle lasted three months and involved nearly one million troops, and is divided into three stages. The first stage lasted from [[August 13]] to [[September 11]], during which the [[National Revolutionary Army]] defended the city against the Japanese who were landing at the shores of Shanghai; The second stage lasted from [[September 12]] to [[November 4]], during which the two armies involved in a bloody house-to-house battle in an attempt to gain control of the city; and the last stage, lasting from [[November 5]] to end of the month, involved the retreat of the Chinese army by flanking Japanese.