Battle of Gnila Lipa
August 1914 battle of WW1's Eastern Front / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Gnila Lipa took place in early World War I on 29–30 August 1914, when the Imperial Russian Army invaded Galicia and engaged the defending Austro-Hungarian Army. It was part of a larger series of battles known collectively as the Battle of Galicia. The battle ended in a defeat of the Austro-Hungarian forces.
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Battle of Gnila Lipa | |||||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
Photograph of a dead Austro-Hungarian soldier in a trench in the Zlata Gora area, Galicia | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Nikolai Ivanov Nikolai Ruzsky Aleksei Brusilov |
Rudolf von Brudermann Hermann von Kövess | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
III. Army VIII. Army |
III. Army Army Group Kövess | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
385,000+ men:[1] 336 infantry battalions 164 cavalry squadrons 1.214 guns |
322,000+ men:[1] 282 infantry battalions 133 cavalry squadrons 718 guns | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Light |
20,000 70 guns[2] |
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