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  2. Battle of Tannenberg - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov .

  3. Alexander Samsonov - Wikipedia

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    However, by August 29 the Germans had surrounded Samsonov's Second Army in the woods between Allenstein and Willenberg. The rout that followed was named the Battle of Tannenberg by Hindenburg, to compensate for a defeat of the Teutonic Knights by the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the same location five centuries earlier ...

  4. Battle of Tannenberg (1914) order of battle - Wikipedia

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    General Alexander Samsonov, Commander Maj. Gen. Postowski, Chief of Staff ... German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914 [2]

  5. 2nd Army (Russian Empire) - Wikipedia

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    General Alexander Samsonov: The Russian 2nd Army (2-я армия, 2 А) was an ... The army was effectively destroyed at Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914. However ...

  6. Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914) - Wikipedia

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    In the Battle of Tannenberg, the casualties of the Russian 2nd Army amounted to 120,219 KIA, WIA, MIA, while the German 8th Army had only 13,058 casualties. [42] The Second Army was destroyed and Samsonov shot himself. The Germans then forced the First and Tenth Armies to retreat out of East Prussia in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.

  7. August 1914 (novel) - Wikipedia

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    A famous episode in the earlier version of the novel narrates the state of mind of General Samsonov, the Russian commander, after his disastrous defeat in what came to be known as the Battle of Tannenberg. Samsonov, tormented by the scale of the defeat and his fear of reporting this failure to the Tsar, eventually commits suicide.

  8. The Guns of August - Wikipedia

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    Hindenburrg and Ludendorff met Scholtz at Tannenberg on August 24 and learned from intercepted communications that Samsonov’s army would launch a major attack the next day. Ignoring Rennenkampf’s northern forces, Hindenburg and Ludendorff concentrated their entire army on defeating Samsonov, setting the stage for the decisive Battle of ...

  9. Kyprian Kandratovich - Wikipedia

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    It was part of the 2nd Army which was commanded by his old boss Alexander Samsonov. During the Russian invasion of East Prussia, the 2nd Army was essentially destroyed in the Battle of Tannenberg [1] and Kandratovich was dismissed from the command and demoted to the reserve ranks at the headquarters of the Minsk Military District on 30