Bezdany raid

Bezdany raid
Site of the Bezdany raid
Native name Akcja pod Bezdanami
DateSeptember 26–27, 1908 (1908-09-26 – 1908-09-27)
LocationBezdany, Vilna Governorate
TypeTrain robbery
MotiveExtortion
Organised byCombat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
Participants
OutcomeTheft of 200,000
Deaths1 Russian soldier
Non-fatal injuries5 Russian soldiers

The Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September 1908[a] in the vicinity of Bezdany (since 1946 Bezdonys) near Vilnius on a Russian Empire passenger and mail train by a group of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party led by Józef Piłsudski.
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