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 Tactical German victory Strategic Russian victory[1] Russian withdrawal halted the German offensive, which helped to prevent the encirclement of the Russians in Poland[2]
Belligerents
German Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff Max Hoffmann Max von Gallwitz	Mikhail Alekseyev Alexander Litvinov
Units involved
Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz	I Army
Strength
177,000 men and 1,382 artillery[3]	107,000 men and 377 artillery[3]
Casualties and losses
20,000-44,000[4]	40,000 men[5]

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.