Great Retreat

When

17 Aug 1915 – 19 Sep 1915

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

52.23° N, 21.01° E

Description

1915 strategic retreat by Russian forces during World War I

Placed at the town its title names, Varsovie.

1915 strategic withdrawal by Russian forces on the Eastern Front of World War I

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 Congress Poland. The Russian Empire's critically under-equipped military suffered great losses in the Central Powers' July–September summer offensive operations, which led to the Stavka ordering a withdrawal to shorten the front lines and avoid the poten…

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