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  World War One Battles
The Battle of Charleroi, one of the Battles of the Frontiers, was one of the key battles on the Western Front in 1914, and one of the early major German victories.
The Battle of Le Cateau was essentially a rearguard action fought by the British in late August 1914, during the general Allied retreat along the Western Front in the face of sustained German successes at the four Battles of the Frontiers.
The battle began with a nine-day German offensive that was only halted with the arrival of French reinforcements and the deliberate flooding of the Belgian front.Belgian troops opened the sluice gates of the dykes holding back the sea from the low countries.
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Battle of Ypres, the Germans used cylinders of poison chlorine gas against their enemy, introducing the concept of chemical warfare.
Battle of Ypres, which opened on July 31 and continued intermittently until the capture of Passchendaele (Passendale) Ridge in November, degenerated into a disheartening struggle in the mud of Belgium.
Battle of Saint-Mihiel was the first appearance of a U.S. force large enough to be called an army.
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 Battle of Lodz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Following the collapse of the German offensive on Warsaw, the Russians intended to resume their advance on Silesia as soon as communication had been restored.
The Second was attacked as it retreated towards Lodz and suffered heavy losses.
The battle, which was fought in terrible winter conditions, lasted until 25 November.
www.westernfrontassociation.com /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/lodz.htm   (439 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Battle of Lodz
In the history of warfare there were several battles fought in the vicinity of the city of Łódź:
Battle of Łódź (1914) during World War I
Battle of Łódź (1939) during Polish Defence War of 1939
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Battle_of_Lodz   (212 words)

  
 Russian Great War History - 1914
Battle of Tannenberg ends in the rout of General Samsonov's 2nd army.
Battles of Grodek and Rava Russka end with the total defeat of Austrian forces.
Lodz is evacuated by Russian forces which pull back towards the Bzura-Ravka lines.
www.russianwarrior.com /1914_History.htm   (2168 words)

  
 First World War, 1914-1918
By the time the battle ended, the French had regained almost all of the ground lost in the initial German attacks, while Falkenhayn had been replaced by the team of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, famous after victories in the east, who decided to go on to the defensive in the west.
The battle was a disaster for Italy, but the new line soon stabilised, and in 1918 the Germans pulled their troops out of the front, expecting the Austrians to be able to deal with Italy on their own now that the Russian front was won.
First was the battle of Heligoland Bight (28 August 1914), which began as an British attempt to stop German patrols, and escalated when the Admiralty sent in Cruisers from the Grand Fleet, and the Germans sent out some of their own Cruisers.
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 von Rennenkampf, Pavel-Georges Karlovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He actively commanded a division-size flank force during the Battle of the Scha Ho, and a corps equivalent force during the Battle of Mukden.
He was victorious at the Battle of Gumbinnen, but suffered defeat at the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.
General von Rennenkampf was relieved of command of the army after the Battle of Lodz on 28 November 1914, and soon afterwards retired from the army.
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 World War 1 - Timelines - 1914 - 1919
First Battle of the Marne halts the German advance, resulting in stalemate and trench warfare.
Battle of the Falkland Islands between British and German Naval units..
Start of the Battle of the Somme, with the British military suffering its greatest number of casualties in a single day, 60,000.
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 List of battles 1901-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
1915 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Turkish assimilation of Armenians
1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19 - "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France.
1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17 - A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
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 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | December 15 | Chico Mendes Nero Was Walt Disney frozen ...
First there would be a terrible battle, then all the participants would disappear, leaving their footprints and burnt trees and horse tracks, as well as cart tracks.
It happened on a former ground of a battle between the French and the Swiss; Pope Leo X interpreted these as portent of war with the Turks and ordered a Crusade.
Battle of the Little Bighorn, was murdered at South Dakota, USA, as he stepped from his cabin to submit to arrest by government troops who were trying to quash an anti-European cult.
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 List of battles 1901-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
1912 Battle of Lemnos (Oct 8)- Greek Marines Occupy the Ottoman held port of Moudros on the Island of Lemnos
It is soon to become the descisive battle of the war, and a Republican defeat.
1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 - February 2 1943 - City besieged by Paulus' German Sixth Army; from November 23 the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Soviets; bloodiest battle in history, 1.8 millions dead approx.
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 The Industrial Development of Poland: Chpt.
Meanwhile, these same Lodz entrepreneurs most humbly and obediently denounce their blood-brothers of the Sosnowiec district to the Russian government, pointing to the fact that in the latter a full third of the workforce are German subjects, while in the Lodz district - thank God - only 8 per cent.
However, if all these temporary and one-sided phenomena were torn out of their complicated economic context and puffed up into a doctrine of Russia's anti-Polish economic conspiracy, then what is involved is a complete lack of perspective and overview of the totality of this policy.
In the same way, the exaggeration of the skirmish between Lodz fustian and Moscow calico into a deep gulf between the interests of Polish and Russian capitalism reveals the lack of an overview of the totality of the capitalist community of interest.
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 HISTORY - WORLD WAR 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Battle of Aisne begins between the Germans and the French during WWI beginning trench warfare.
Battle of the Falkland Islands in WW 21 Dec 1914
The 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes (also known as the Winter Battle) when the German armies are surrounded a Russian army (7-21 Feb).
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 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. I, Chapter VII.
North of Lodz the Germans have received reinforcements from the western front and are decidedly getting the upper hand.
Lodz has not less than 380,000 inhabitants, i.e., the populations of Lille and Roubaix combined.
The series of successes which the Germans have obtained in Masuria and Poland during the last four months have all been produced by "railway strategy," that is the swift and secret transfer of a mass of manoeuvre to another part of the front for an unexpected blow.
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 ConsimWorld.COM - Lodz 1914: First Blitzkrieg (6/15/98)
LODZ 1914 is a rather detailed simulation, requiring some time to master the system.
LODZ 1914: FIRST BLITZKRIEG is an operational simulation of the clash between German and Russian armies in Poland during November and December of 1914.
Lodz 1914 is a detailed study of this battle presenting a realistic combat system, Army, Corps, and Division HQs, artillery, engineers, reserve movement, reconnaissance and much more - all in a playable format.
www.consimworld.com /newsroom/archives/nowshipping/mih.19990615.ship.html   (1341 words)

  
 The Great War - Russian Front - James Mowbray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Battle of Stallupoenen, a German tactical victory delayed Rennenkampf's 1st Army.
Battle of Tannenberg Samsonov's 2nd Russian Army is struck on both flanks by a double envelopment, and in the center nearly simultaneously, leading to progressive disorganization, followed by slaughter of 125,000 men and the loss of 500 guns.
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes German 8th Army struck the flank of Russian 1st Army, which escaped a double envelopment and escaped, but having lost 125,000 men and 150 guns.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/mowbray/gw-russ.htm   (592 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Paul von Rennenkampf
General Samsonov came out highly critical of Rennenkampf at the Battle of Mukden in 1905.
Samsonov would again have cause to critique Rennenkampf's lack of assistance at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.
Retiring to the Black Sea, he was approached by the Bolsheviks to serve in the Red Army in the civil war in 1918; upon declining he was shot.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/rennenkampf.htm   (188 words)

  
 Military Campaigns of World War 1 - Russia
The threat to the German forces is too great and one Corps at Lodz has to struggle against a much larger Russian force before breaking out in late November.
In the north, the Germans hold the western part of Poland including Lodz (but have not reached Warsaw), regained all East Prussia, and taken the southern part of the Russian Baltic provinces.
In a series of amphibious landings and naval battles the Germans defeat the Russians, and break through into the Gulf of Riga two years after their first attempt.
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We inflicted serious blow to several times stronger British navy which lost 7 battleships and 3 battle cruiser, probably 5 battleships were heavily damaged but we don’t have exact information of their destiny, also they lost 14 light cruisers and 26 destroyers.
The battle started over 2 months ago with southern part of Austro-Hungarian army supported by Austro-Hungarian and our artillery entered porvince of Serbia from both northern and western border in the beginning of January and in simultaneous assault took Serbian defense in few days.
For the record, in the battle of Lodz we used new weapon for the first time.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Vasily Gurko
A prominent campaigner for army reform prior to war in 1914, Gurko was closely associated with the political moderate and Octobrist leader Alexander Guchkov.
Appointed to the head of VI Corps, attached to Second Army, Gurko led the Russian counterattack in the January 1915 Battle of Bolimov.
In the autumn of the following year, 1916, Gurko was chosen as the officer most likely to bring about the rehabilitation of the elite Guards Army, replacing Bezobrazov, and which had been severely damaged in fighting at Kovel.
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 Battle Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Alma, battle of the 20 September 1854 (Crimea)
Leipzig, battle of ('The Battle of Nations'), 16-18 October 1813
Thielt (or Hackespol), battle of, 21 June 1128 (Flanders)
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 LODZ 1914 - World War I MONSTER GAME by David Bolt
Welcome to LODZ 1914, a telling of the story of the clash between German and Russian armies in Poland during November and December of 1914...
Following their victory at the Battle of Tannenberg, the German generals Mackensen, Hindenburg and Ludendorff devised a plan to rapidly shift 9th Army to northern Poland by railroad.
LODZ 1914 is a Monster Game of the battles on the Eastern Front in WW I and features top quality components through-out.
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 TOAW - Durchbruch - Lodz 1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There was very important factor of the battle of Lodz - lack of knowledge about enemy's forces.
The Battle of Lodz was one of most mobile and dramatic struggles of WWI.
His three corps - veterans of successful battles of Galicia and Vistula River - have arrived from the south to rescue the threatened 2nd Army and 1st Army has started to group near Lowicz to cut off the German left wing.
media.miks.uj.edu.pl /~jflis/pasje/TOAW/durch.htm   (1575 words)

  
 II. The invasion of Poland and the low countries
The commander of the LAH was still Sepp Dietrich, a close friend of Heinz Guderian and an ex-tank sergeant from the first world war.
It has been less then a week since the invasion of Poland, and already the German Army came close to Lodz, and both the Germans and the Poles knew that Lodz was the last stop before Warschau.
During the battle for Lodz, the Leibstandarte played a very important role.
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 Expand polish army please :) - FileFront Gaming Forums
I also think a tank battle outside Lodz wich was the largest tank battle (also polish bombers participated) in the Polish campaign I believe.
The exact battle youre speaking of is the peninsula of Westerplatte, the first fighting in the September invasion.
They were some major battles against russians in Bialystok (especially in the ghetto), lwow, and Grodno.
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 Battle of Lodz, 11-25 November 1914
Battle on Eastern Front during First World War.
Mackensen struck between the Russian First and Second armies, crushing the First, and coming close to surrounding the Second, before Russian counterattacks aided by a march of seventy miles in forty eight hours relieved them.
While the battle was technically a Russian victory, the Germans achieved their aim, and the Russians withdrew, never again to come so close to German soil.
www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_lodz.html   (100 words)

  
 Baltic Sea, Russian & German Navies 1914
The First Battle of Lemberg then takes place through into early September.
The weaker Austrian right wing on the southeast flank s in trouble with its reinforced Third Army outnumbered three to one by the Russian Third and Eighth Armies.
On her way to bombard Libau, armoured cruiser 'Friedrich Carl', serving as a coastal defence ship, sinks on two mines in a Russian field laid by destroyers, west-southwest of Memel (54-41N, 20-11E).
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 lodz2-eng.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lodz, a 100 soul wooden town, is incorporated into Kingdom of Prussia (Province Südpreussen)
1841 - Lodz is appointed to a 'provincial rank' city (not a provincial capital, however)
General Litzmann's victory at the 'Battle of Lodz' brings German occupation (lasting till 1918)
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 List of battles 1901-forward
1937 Battle of Nanjing - early November to December 13 - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of Republic of China.
1942 Battle of Nanos[?] April 18 800 Italian soldiers lay siege 50 Slovene partisans.
1944 Battle of the Hurtgen Forest[?] Begins in October 6 – Volksturm[?] and German tank unit repulses 8 US infantry regiments and two armored divisions in a 6-month battle.
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 World History -- World War 1 Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
March-December, 1915 Battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert.
July 1-November 18, 1916 Battle of the Somme.
April, 1917 Battle of Arras and Vimy Ridge.
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March-December - Battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert.
July 1-November 18 - Battle of the Somme.
April - Battle of Arras and Vimy Ridge.
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