| Battle of the San river | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
&sq=Nikolai Patrushev&lang=en&file=File:EasternFront1914a.jpg) Eastern Front, September 1914. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Austria-Hungary German Empire |
 Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Svetozar Boroević Joseph Ferdinand Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli |
Alexei Brusilov[a] Radko Dimitriev Dmitry Shcherbachev | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Army 3rd Army 4th Army 2rd Army |
3rd Army 8th Army 11rd Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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582,466[2][b] 1,076 machine guns, 3,058 guns |
264,426[c] 679 machine guns, 1,139 guns[3] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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126,000[6]
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Battle of the San river, It is also known as Second Battle of Galicia[7] (Russian: Вторая Галицкая Битва; German: Die zweite Schlacht von Galizien) Russian defensive operation in Galicia in the autumn of 1914, the main task facing the troops was to protect Lviv, The defense took place along the San River. Skillful action of the Russian command was able to end the battle with the general retreat of the Austro-Hungarians to Krakow and the foothills of the Carpathians. The battle was fought in parallel with the offensive in Poland and East Prussia.[8]
- ^ Kernosovsky 1938, p. 428.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 75.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 77.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 89.
- ^ Conrad F. Aus meiner Dienstzeit. Bd. V. Wien, 1925. S. 399.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 84.
- ^ Kernosovsky 1938, p. 427.
- ^ Battle of the Vistula River, Second Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914) (Battle of Augustów (1914))
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