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The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. ... 1915, to replenish the 61st Infantry Division. On July 20 ...
The Great Retreat, also known in Serbian historiography as the Albanian Golgotha [4] (Serbian: Албанска голгота, Albanska golgota), refers to the retreat of the Royal Serbian Army through the mountains of Albania during the 1915–16 winter of World War I.
This enormous movement is known as the Great Retreat of 1915. Warsaw was evacuated and fell to the new Twelfth German Army on 5 August, and by the end of the month Poland was entirely in Austro-German hands (see Bug-Narew Offensive ).
The Serbian campaign of 1915 (German: Der serbische Feldzug 1915) ... The period known as the "Great Retreat", also known as the Albanian Golgotha, is regarded in ...
Commemorative Medal for Loyalty to the Fatherland 1915 (Serbian: Споменица за верност отаџбини 1915., romanized: Spomenica za vernost otadžbini 1915.) or Commemorative Medal of the Great Serbian Retreat, better known as the Albanian Commemorative Medal (Serbian: Албанска споменица, romanized: Albanska ...
A retreat was ordered towards evening by the 5th Division to conform and by nightfall II Corps had established a new defensive line, running through the villages of Montrœul, Boussu, Wasmes, Paturages and Frameries. The Germans had built pontoon bridges over the canal and were approaching the British positions in great strength. [7]
Peasants from a destroyed village in front of a shack constructed from debris, environs of Warsaw, 1915. After the Great Retreat of the Russian army, the Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Yanushkevich, with the full support of the Grand Duke Nicholas, ordered the army to devastate the border territories and expel the "enemy" nations within.
At the end of the great retreat, in order to raise the morale of the army, he attempted to defeat the 14th German division, which was crowned with success. He took part in the Lutsk operation. [10] In October 1915, Brusilov wanted to deport 20,000 German civilians from Volhynia.