Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During the summer offensive, the troops of the Central Powers inflicted very heavy casualties on the Imperial Russian Army – in 45 days – up to 1,006,000 men. Of course, this was somewhat less than the Russian casualties in the previous Gorlice campaign (1,243,400 men in 75 days), [ 10 ] but on average, the casualties per day were higher ...
The regiment covered the retreat of Russian troops from East Prussia, preventing their encirclement. For their courage in rearguard battles with the enemy, fourteen servicement were awarded the Cross of St. George, 4th Class. At the end of January 1915, the regiment found itself in Osowiec, taking the perimeter of the fortress under guard.
Russian casualties were heavy, with an estimated 200,000 casualties. [96] Estimates of Russian soldiers captured during the week-long retreat varied, with some citing 92,000 Russian prisoners and 300 captured guns [97] while others cited 56,000 prisoners and 185 captured guns. [92] Germans losses were light, with 16,200 casualties. [98]
The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the Central Powers' chief offensive effort of 1915, causing the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia ...
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Алексе́ев) (15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1857 – 8 October [O.S. 25 September] 1918) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka, and ...
It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern and Western Front following the Great Retreat, and existed until the demobilization of the Russian army in 1918 due to the unrest from the Russian Revolution. In 1917 it had a total troop strength of 1.4 million men.
The Charge of Rokitna (Polish: Szarża pod Rokitną) was a charge of a cavalry squadron of the 2nd Brigade of Polish Legions, fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Army.It took place on June 13, 1915 near the village of Rokytne, which at that time was part of Bessarabia Governorate (Russian Empire).
German cavalry entering Warsaw on August 5, 1915, during the Great Retreat in the Russian Empire. Great Retreat — The Imperial Russian Army abandoned Warsaw, allowing the German forces to occupy it with little resistance. [23] [24] A second hurricane began to form in the Atlantic Ocean east of the Caribbean. [25]