Second battle of Przasnysz

Second battle of Przasnysz
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I

Bug-Narew Offensive
and Russian withdrawal
Date13–18 July 1915
Location
Bug and Narew area, (present-day Poland)
Result Indecisive[a]
Belligerents
 German Empire Russian Empire
Units involved
German Empire 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.

  1. ^ Корольков Г.К Несбывшиеся Канны.–М.,1926. С.36
  2. ^ a b Олейников 2016, p. 109.
  3. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, с. 524
  4. ^ С.Г. Нелипович, 2022, с. 524


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