First Battle of the Masurian Lakes

Name: First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
Start: 1914-09-02
End: 1914-09-16

2 Sep 1914 – 16 Sep 1914 · 58.25° N, 44.69° E

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When: 2 Sep 1914 – 16 Sep 1914
Kind: Battle
Coordinates: 58.25° N, 44.69° E
Location: East Prussia, Germany (present-day Russia and Poland)
Outcome: German victory
Belligerents: Russian Empire vs Germany

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First Battle of the Masurian Lakes

World War I battle in 1914

The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was a German offensive in the Eastern Front 2–16 September 1914, during the Russian invasion of East Prussia. It took place only days after the Battle of Tannenberg where the German 8th Army encircled and destroyed the Russian 2nd Army.

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Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire allemande des lacs Mazures, qui confirme Tannenberg”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page

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World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000

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