Second battle of Przasnysz

Second battle of Przasnysz
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
Bug-Narew Offensive and Russian withdrawal
Date 13–18 July 1915 Location Bug and Narew area, (present-day Poland) Result Indecisive[a]
Belligerents
German Empire	Russian Empire
Units involved
Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz	I Army
Strength
177,000 men and 1,382 artillery[2]	107,000 men and 377 artillery[2]
Casualties and losses
20,000–44,000[3]	40,000 men[4] 12 guns and 48 machine guns

The Second battle of Przasnysz took place at the beginning of a major Bug-Narew Offensive of the Imperial German army on the German Eastern front. In the course of a stubborn battle, German troops under the command of Max von Gallwitz broke into the heavily fortified defenses of the outnumbered Russian army and took the city of Przasnysz.

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