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    The siege of Przemyśl was the longest siege in Europe during the First World War. The siege was a crushing defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army by the Russian...
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  • 1975 to 1998 Przemyśl, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) Siege of Przemyśl, an important battle of the First World War Przemysł (name), a...
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    77389°E / 49.78611; 22.77389 Przemyśl fortress (Polish: Twierdza Przemyśl) is a series of fortifications around Przemyśl, Poland. It was constructed by...
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  • Polish Republic Battle of Przemyśl (1939), also known as the defence of Przemyśl, a battle in the Invasion of Poland Siege of Przemyśl, during World War I...
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    Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship. Przemyśl owes its long and rich history to the advantages of its geographic location. The city...
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  • four reels depicted the Siege of Przemyśl, disastrous for the Austrians, with incidents reenacted using soldiers as extras. Most of the film has been lost...
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    part at Przemyśl, the Belgian sieges, on the Italian Front and Serbian Front, and even being reused in World War II. At the Siege of Przemyśl during World...
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    last fort was surrendered on 25 August. Belgium portal Liège Medal Siege of Przemyśl (September 1914–March 1915) The 9th Mixed Brigade comprised the 9th...
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    World War I (redirect from War of 14-18)
    Ottoman surrender of Damascus. Fakhri Pasha, the Ottoman commander of Medina, resisted for more than 2+1⁄2 years during the siege of Medina before surrendering...
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    They shall not pass (category Battle of Verdun)
    demonstration of 6 February. Ils ("they") designated the nationalist protesters. It was also used during the Spanish Civil War, this time at the siege of Madrid...
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    The siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the...
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  • This is a list of the events of World War I in chronological order. Diplomatic history of World War I Albertini 1953, p. 38. Keegan 1998, p. 53. Lowe 1994...
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    The siege of Tsingtao (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い; simplified Chinese: 青岛战役; traditional Chinese: 青島戰役) was the attack on the German...
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    days leading up to July 28, 1914. The sequence of events began with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia, a Russian ally. In response, Russia...
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    Aleksei Brusilov, the Russians won the Battle of Galicia in September and began the Siege of Przemyśl, the next fortress on the road towards Kraków....
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    Zone rouge (category Battle of the Somme)
    forbidden in the Zone Rouge, because of the vast amounts of human and animal remains, and millions of items of unexploded ordnance contaminating the...
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    Marne Karl von Bülow - Commander of the 2nd Army at the Battle of Liège and Siege of Namur and was blamed for the failure of capturing Paris in 1914 Georg...
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    White Friday (1916) (category History of Trentino)
    White Friday was a series of avalanches on the Italian front of World War I. The most significant avalanche struck the Austro-Hungarian barracks on Mount...
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    Mountains, completely surrounded the Austrian fortress of Przemyśl and started a Siege of Przemyśl which lasted for over a hundred days. The battle severely...
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    Central Powers, Albert K. Dawson: The Battle and Fall of Przemysl (1915), depicting the Siege of Przemyśl, disastrous for the Austrians, with incidents reenacted...
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    The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, Slovene: soška fronta) were a series of twelve battles between the Austro-Hungarian...
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    provoked, and the Russians displayed the same restraint. Some of the besiegers of Przemyśl deposited three Christmas trees in no man's land with a polite...
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    Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten (category Knights Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa)
    1914 to March 1915 of the fortress of Przemyśl against a Russian siege. Born in Hermannstadt, he was the son of the senior policeman Josef Kusmanek and...
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    The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
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  • Austro-Hungarian Army was defeated at the Battle of Lemberg and the great fortress city of Przemyśl was besieged and fell in March 1915. The Gorlice–Tarnów...
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    Svetozar Boroević (category Commanders Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa)
    October he liberated Fort Przemysl, providing a temporary relief in the Siege of Przemyśl. His troops then pulled back to hold positions around Limanowa, at...
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    The Second Battle of the Marne (French: Seconde Bataille de la Marne; 15 – 18 July 1918) was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during...
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    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany...
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    and the First Battle of Ypres. The Germans built field fortifications to hold the ground captured in 1914 and the French began siege warfare to break through...
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    The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive...
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