Battle of the Four Rivers
| 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 | |||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
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9th Army 1st Army 2nd Army Landwehr Corps |
1st Army 2nd Army 4th Army 5th Army 9th Army | ||||||||
The Battle of the Four Rivers (Russian: Сражение на четырех реках) or Battles on the Bzura, Rawka, Pilica and Nida was a key battle between German and Russian forces in the First World War in 1914, in which the Germans unsuccessfully tried to break through and take Warsaw. The battle was the first positional battle on the eastern front, and was one of the bloodiest battles in 1914.