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2. Aleksei Brusilov - Wikipedia

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   Aleksei [a] Alekseyevich Brusilov (/ ˈ b r uː s ɪ l ɒ v /, US also / ˈ b r uː s ɪ l ɔː v /; Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ brʊˈsʲiɫəf]; 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1853 – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 ...

3. Great Retreat (Russia) - Wikipedia

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   The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and the Polish Congress Kingdom .

4. 4th Army (Austria-Hungary) - Wikipedia

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   It suffered heavy casualties during the Brusilov Offensive. [1] The 4th Army was disbanded in March 1918. The Fourth Army participated in numerous battles during the war including: Battle of Komarów (August 1914) Battle of Rawa (September 1914) Battle of the Vistula River (October 1914) Battle of Limanowa (December 1914)

5. Battle of Kowel - Wikipedia

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   By now the Austrians were in full retreat and the Russians had taken over 200,000 prisoners; however, Brusilov's forces were becoming overextended. In a meeting held on the same day Lutsk fell, German chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn persuaded Austrian field marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf to redeploy troops from the Italian Front to ...

6. Battle of Kraków (1914) - Wikipedia

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   At the same time, Brusilov was trying to cross the Carpathian Mountains and invade Slovakia, for this he needed to capture the Lupovsky and Bexidsky crossings. The offensive began on November 12 and ended on December 2. 190,000 Russians were operating against 160,000 Austrians, but the Austrians defended themselves on inaccessible mountain passes.

7. Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia (1914–1915) - Wikipedia

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   Aleksei Brusilov, Commander of Russian forces occupying Galicia. In his first orders to the Russian troops crossing into eastern Galicia, General Aleksei Brusilov, commander of the Russian forces, proclaimed "We are entering Galicia, which despite its being a constituent part of Austria-Hungary, is a Russian land from time immemorial, populated, after all, by Russian people (russkim zhe ...

8. Second Brusilov offensive - Wikipedia

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   The Second Brusilov offensive took place in July–August 1916 on the Eastern Front during the First World War.As a result of the First Brusilov offensive in May–June 1916, the Imperial Russian army defeated the Austro-Hungarian troops and captured a large number of prisoners (up to 50% of the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army were of Slavic origin and did not want to fight against the ...

9. June 1916 - Wikipedia

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   Brusilov Offensive – Russian forces captured Lutsk, Galicia (now Ukraine), capturing 200,000 prisoners and putting the Austro-Hungarian army into full retreat. [ 45 ] Italian armed merchant cruiser SS Principe Umberto was sunk by Austro-Hungarian U-boat SM U-5 in the Adriatic Sea with 1,926 casualties, the largest number of lives lost in a ...