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Great Retreat (Russia)

The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and Congress Poland.

Great Retreat (Russia)
Great Retreat (Russia) · Department of Military Art and Engineering, at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
17 Aug 1915 – 19 Sept 1915
Where
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Era
Modern

Topics

Ukraine896 CE – todayPoland967 CE – todayLatvia1198 – todayEstonia1198 – todayLithuania1236 – todayBelarus1385 – today

Before and after

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive1915Great Retreat (Serbia)1915 – 1916Show on timeline

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