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    The Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Polska Siła Zbrojna, German: Polnische Wehrmacht) was a military formation created during World War I. It was created...
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    The Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, pronounced [ˈɕiwɨ ˈzbrɔjnɛ ʐɛt͡ʂpɔsˈpɔlitɛj ˈpɔlskʲɛj]; abbreviated...
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    Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Wojsko Polskie) were the armed forces of the Second Polish Republic from 1919 until the demise of independent Poland at the...
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    Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of...
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    The Polish Air Force (Polish: Siły Powietrzne, lit. 'Air Forces') is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially...
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    Armed Forces. It is the central organ of the military command of the Armed Forces Administration and oversees operational command of the armed forces...
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  • although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko Lądowe), Navy (Marynarka) and Air Force...
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    In December 1918, after the Directorate's coming to power, the army reached its peak at an estimated 100,000 recruits. These armed forces proved to be...
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    Volunteer Army, and Second Polish Republic forces. They struggled for control of Ukraine after the February Revolution of 1917. The war ensued soon after...
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    Polish General Staff, formally known as the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego) is the highest professional...
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    their lineage to 1917, while the modern armed forces were formed again in 1991. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the fifth largest armed force in the world...
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    active on 14 January 1917. It was subsequently transformed between 7 October 1918 and 22 November 1918 into the independent Second Polish Republic, the customary...
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    An Armed Forces Day, alongside its branch-specific variants often referred to as Army or Soldier's Day, Navy or Sailor's Day, and Air Force or Aviator's...
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    newly independent Polish state Jan Kucharzewski (November 26, 1917 – February 27, 1918) Antoni Ponikowski (February 27 – April 3, 1918) Jan Kanty Steczkowski...
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    Polish Armed Forces in the East (Polish: Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Wschodzie, Russian: Вооруженные силы Польши на Востоке) around World War I is a term...
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    The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian...
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    1st Polish Corps in Russia (Polish: I Korpus Polski w Rosji; Russian: 1-й Польский корпус) was a military formation formed on 24 July 1917 in Minsk from...
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    Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were formed from Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army after Ukrainian independence, and trace their ancestry to the 1917–22...
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    formations on the Polish side was the First Polish Army. In early 1918, Lenin and Leon Trotsky embarked on the rebuilding of the Russian armed forces. The new...
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    Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces (German: Bewaffnete Macht or Wehrmacht; Hungarian: Fegyveres Erő) or Imperial and Royal Armed Forces were the military forces of Austria-Hungary...
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    Western Allies, contributed to the Polish forces defeat by 6 October 1939. A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks...
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    The Revolutions of 1917–1923 were a revolutionary wave that included political unrest and armed revolts around the world inspired by the success of the...
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    Edward Rydz-Śmigły (category Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War)
    1886 – 2 December 1941) was a Polish politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, as well as a painter and poet...
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  • differences) is in the title of the armed forces of certain countries and territories. Ambazonia Defence Forces Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Australian...
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    Spring 1920 – Autumn 1921: Polish–Soviet War (Treaty of Warsaw), Russian Civil War (between Bolshevik armies and the Armed Forces of South Russia), Ukrainian...
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    these left over forces throughout 1917, there was no effective Russian military force in the region by the end of 1917 . At the turn of 1918, the Allied Powers...
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    Anders' Army (category Articles with Polish-language sources (pl))
    Anders' Army was the informal yet common name of the Polish Armed Forces in the East in the 1941–42 period, in recognition of its commander Władysław...
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    between 1917 and 1919 because of hunger and from diseases, which included cholera, plague and typhus, as well as influenza stemming from the 1918 flu pandemic...
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  • appear in the oldest Polish chronicle, Gesta principum Polonorum from the early 12th century. After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile...
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  • 1917, and in mostly completed by the beginning of the German offensive along the entire front on February 18, 1918. The period from November 1917 to...
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