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The strategic goals of the Caucasus campaign for Ottoman forces was to retake Artvin, Ardahan, Kars, and the port of Batum. A success in this region would mean a diversion of Russian forces to this front from the Polish and Galician fronts. [19] A Caucasus campaign would have a distracting effect on Russian forces. The plan found sympathy with ...
Stanislav Čeček calls to join forces with anti-Bolshevik Russians to overthrow the Communist government and reignite the Eastern Front. June 8 – October Caucasian: Germany interferes in the Caucasus. June 9–12 Western: Fourth phase of the Spring Offensive, Operation Gneisenau (also known as Battle of Matz).
Due to the defeats at the Battle of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, the Russians redeployed almost half their forces to the Prussian front, leaving behind just 65,000 troops from the initial 100,000 to face the Ottoman army. [2] Caucasus Army Corps from November 12, 1914 April 2, 1915 Berhman George E. 2 infantry divisions; 2 cossack rifle ...
Clockwise from top: A Chechen child soldier stands in front of a burning house; a mourning ceremony for victims of the Khojaly massacre at Agdam Mosque; Dutch Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe monitors inspecting a Georgian military installation near the South Ossetian line of contact; Zviadist soldiers hiding from gunfire behind the Georgian Parliament Building; destruction ...
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I; Part of World War I: From left to right: The Ottoman Shaykh al-Islām who declared Jihad against the Entente Powers; Burning oil tanks in the port of Novorossiysk after the Ottoman Empire's strike on Russian ports; Fifth Army during the Gallipoli Campaign; Third Army on the Caucasus campaign; The heliograph team of the Ottoman army in the Sinai and ...
This offensive on the Western Front failed to achieve a decisive breakthrough, and the arrival of more and more American units in Europe was sufficient to offset the German advantage. Even after the Russian collapse, about a million German soldiers remained tied up in the east until the end of the war, attempting to run a short-lived addition ...
Furthermore, both sides became increasingly fearful of social unrest and revolution in Europe. Thus, both sides urgently sought a decisive victory. [44] Ludendorff drew up plans (codenamed Operation Michael) for the 1918 offensive on the Western Front. The spring offensive sought to divide the British and French forces with a series of feints ...
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