| Battle of the Four Rivers | |||||||||
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| Part of The Eastern front of the World War I | |||||||||
 Siberian riflemen in Warsaw in December 1914 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 German Empire Austria-Hungary |
 Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Paul von Hindenburg Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Remus von Woyrsch Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli |
Nikolai Ruzsky Alexander Litvinov Vladimir Smirnov Aleksei Evert Paul von Plehwe Platon Lechitsky | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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9th army 1st army 2nd army Landwehr Corps |
1st army 2nd army 4th army 5th army 9th army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 600,000 men | 500,000 men | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 120,000 total | 150,000 to 200,000 total | ||||||||
The Battle of the Four Rivers (Russian: Сражение на четырех реках) or Battles on the Bzura, Rawka, Pilica and Nida was one of the key battles in 1914, as a result of which the Germans tried to break through and take Warsaw, but they could not do it.[1] The battle was the first positional battle on the eastern front,[2] and is also one of the bloodiest battles in 1914.[3]
- ^ Danilov 1929, pp. 263–264.
- ^ Nelipovich 2021, p. 112.
- ^ Oleynikov 2016, p. 81.