Battle of the Wierzbołów station

Battle of the Wierzbołów station
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
Date15 August [O.S. 2 August] 1914
Location
Wierzbołów, Russian Empire (Modern day Virbalis, Lithuania)
Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire  German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Granikov
Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski
Unknown
Units involved
Volga 109th Infantry Regiment [ru]
Unknown
Strength
2,500 10,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Heavy[a]

Battle of the Wierzbołów (Russian: Битва у Вержболово), was one of the largest battles of the first 16 days of the World War I, during which the parties were preparing to conduct full-scale operations.[2]

10,000 German troops attacked 2,500 Russians on the station,[3][dubiousdiscuss] the Germans wanted to destroy the train station to slow down the mobilization of the Russians, but they could not take it and had to retreat.[4]

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Bibliography

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  • Borisyuk, Andrey (2024). Забытая война. Россия в 1914-1918 [The forgotten war. Russia in 1914-1918] (in Russian). Moscow: Вече. ISBN 978-5-4484-5078-5.
  • Oleynikov, Alexei (2023). Германские знаменные трофеи русской армии [German banner trophies of the Russian army] (in Russian). Военно-исторический журнал.
  • Belolipetsky, V. (1939). Восточно-Прусская операция: сборник документов мировой империалистической войны [The East Prussian Operation: a collection of documents of the World Imperialist War] (in Russian). Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Notes

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  1. ^ The cavalry alone killed 200 and captured 17 Germans[1]