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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Graves of Polish soldiers fallen at the Battle of Warsaw, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw.
The Battle of Warsaw (sometimes referred to as the Miracle at the Vistula, Polish Cud nad Wisłą) was the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War, the war that began soon after the end of World War I in 1918 and lasted until the Treaty of Riga in 1921.
Battle of Warsaw Conflict Polish Defence War of 1939 Date 8 to September 28, 1939 Place Warsaw, Poland Result Polish defeat The 1939 Battle of Warsaw was fought between the Poland (Warsaw) and the German Army.
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 Battle of Warsaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Warsaw (1939), siege of Warsaw during the Invasion of Poland, at the outset of World War II
Battle of Raszyn (1920), during the Battle of Warsaw (1920)
Battle of Radzymin (1920), during the Battle of Warsaw (1920)
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 Warsaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warsaw remained the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia to become the capital of the province of New East Prussia.
In the course of the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920, the huge Battle of Warsaw was fought on the Eastern outskirts of the city in which the capital of Poland was successfully defended and the Red Army defeated.
Warsaw is seen as the heart of Poland by foreign investors, whose financial participation in the city's development was estimated in 2002 at over 650 million euro.
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 Warsaw - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Warsaw straddles the Vistula river, approximately 350 kilometres from both the Carpathian mountains and the Baltic Sea.
In the course of the September Campaign, Warsaw was severely bombed, and in the course of the Siege of Warsaw approximately 10 to 15% of its buildings were destroyed.
Warsaw is seen as the heart of Poland by foreign investors whose financial participation in the city's development was estimated to be over 650 million euro a year (2002).
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 List of battles (geographic)
The battles on this page are organized by country, that is, by the present location of the battlefield, not by the countries which participated in the battle.
Battle of Quebec (1759) - Seven Years' War, includes the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion*Battle of Grunwald - 1410
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Duchy of Warsaw - The Duchy of Warsaw was a Polish state established officially by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 fro...
Warsaw Confederation - The Warsaw Confederation (January 28, 1573) was an important event in the history of Poland, and is considered as the beginning of religious freedom in...
Warsaw Pact - The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc countries intended to organize against the perceived...
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 Warszawa, Poland
Warsaw is located on both sides of the Vistula river, approximately 350 kilometres from both the Carpathian mountains and the Baltic Sea.
In the course of the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920 there was a huge Battle of Warsaw fought on the eastern outskirts of the city in which the capital of Poland was defended and the Red Army defeated.
In the course of the September Campaign Warsaw was severely bombed and in the course of the Siege of Warsaw approximately 10 to 15% of all the buildings were destroyed.
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 List of battles (alphabetical) - InformationBlast
Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
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 List of battles 1401-1800
1428 Battle of Orléans English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury with duke of Bedford besiege French city and are driven off with the loss of their siege engines by Joan.
1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort June 2 Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria.
1656 Battle of Warsaw (1656) Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War
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Battle of Bauge The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat the forces of Henry V commanded by the Duke of Clarence.
Battle of Takatenjin Takeda Katsuyori, son of Takeda Shingen, captures Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortress of Takatenjin.
Battle of Komaki Hideyoshi is defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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 Battle of Waterloo - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Battle of Waterloo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Final battle of the Napoleonic Wars on 18 June 1815 in which a coalition force of British, Prussian, and Dutch troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon near the village of Waterloo, 13 km/8 mi south of Brussels, Belgium.
Napoleon found Wellington's army isolated from his allies and began a direct offensive to smash them, but the British held on until joined by the Prussians under Marshal Gebhard von Blücher.
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 List of battles geographic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 ipedia.com: Battle of Warsaw Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Warsaw in Poland has been the site of six battles in history: Battle of Warsaw, during the Northern Wars Battle of Warsaw, during the November Uprising Battle of Vistula River-Warsaw, during World War...
Battle of Warsaw (1944) during the Warsaw Uprising
Battle of Warsaw (1945), near the end of World War II This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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The Army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at Warsaw in late July 1656 was approximately (after the arrival of Lubomirski and Czarniecki’s men) 24,000 regulars, 10,000 levy and 2 000 Tatars.
No battle with the Brandenburg force occurred; instead an unpleasant surprise in to the form of 2000 Swedish riters was waiting for them.
However, the battle did not weaken relative Polish strength, and the Swedish strategic situation would soon prove to be so weak that they were forced to withdraw their field army.
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 History
The Battle of Cecora (1620), in which he lost his father and was captured by the Turks, was his first military action.
After his return to Warsaw Mazepa continued his service as a royal courtier, and in 1659–63 he was sent on various diplomatic missions to Ukraine.
The preparation, editing, and display of the IEU entries associated with the reign of Hetman Ivan Mazepa and the Battle of Poltava (1709) was made possible by the financial support of the MICHAEL KOWALSKY AND DARIA MUCAK-KOWALSKY ENDOWMENT FUND at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton, AB, Canada).
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 List of battles (geographic)
The battles on this page are organized by country, that is, by the present location of the battlefield, not by the countrieswhich participated in the battle.
Battle of Oudenarde - 1708 - War of the SpanishSuccession
Battle of Raszyn - 1809 - Napoleon Wars
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 August 15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining.
778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.
1057 - King Mac Bethad killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
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 The First Northern War, 1655-1660
The Swedes were victorious in a number of engagements and occupied Warsaw, appeared in front of Cracow in Sept. 1655.
Still, the Swedes and Brandenburgers were on the defensive, southern Poland liberated, Polish and Tatar forces raiding Brandenburg and East Prussia.
Major battles were avoided, the Polish strategy was to wear down the Swedes.
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 July 18 Events in History
July 18, 1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
July 18, 1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
July 18, 1656 Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw
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