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Northern War battles

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Battle of Warka The Battle of Warka occurred on April 7, 1656 between the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, commanded by Stefan Czarniecki, and the forces of the Swedish Empire, commanded by Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. Lasting about ...
(April 7, 1656) *
Siege of Warsaw (1656) The siege of Warsaw took place between April 24 and July 1, 1656. Swedish Empire forces had occupied the Polish capital without fighting in early September 1655 (see Deluge (history)). In late April 1656, Poles and Lithuanians began the siege, ...
, Warsaw retaken by Poles from Swedes on June 30, 1656 *
Battle of Warsaw (1656) The Battle of Warsaw (german: Schlacht von Warschau; pl, Bitwa pod Warszawą; sv, Tredagarsslaget vid Warschau) took place near Warsaw on , between the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden and Brandenburg. It was a major ...
, battle outside the city on July 18–20, 1656 * Battle of Warsaw (1705), fought on July 31, during the Great Northern War *
Battle of Praga (1705) The Battle of Praga took place on October 25, 1705, near the town of Warsaw, Poland during the fifth year of the Great Northern War. The Swedish army of more than 270 men assisted by approximately 140 soldiers from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonw ...
, fought on 25 October, during the Polish–Swedish War (1701–1706)


Partition and Napoleonic wars

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Warsaw Uprising (1794) The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 or Warsaw Insurrection ( pl, insurekcja warszawska) was an armed insurrection by the people of Warsaw early in the Kościuszko Uprising. Supported by the Polish Army, the uprising aimed to throw off control by the ...
, better known as the Insurrection of Warsaw * First Battle of Warsaw (1794), during the Kościuszko Uprising *
Battle of Praga The Battle of Praga or the Second Battle of Warsaw of 1794 was a Russian assault on Praga, the easternmost suburb of Warsaw, during the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. It was followed by a massacre (known as the Massacre of Praga) of the civilia ...
or Second Battle of Warsaw (1794), during the later Kościuszko Uprising *
Battle of Raszyn (1809) The first Battle of Raszyn was fought on 19 April 1809 between armies of the Austrian Empire under Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este and the Duchy of Warsaw under Józef Antoni Poniatowski, as part of the War of the Fifth Coalitio ...
, during the Polish-Austrian War


November Uprising

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First Battle of Wawer The First Battle of Wawer was fought on 19 and 20 February 1831, between Poland and Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country i ...
, February 19–20, 1831 *
Battle of Olszynka Grochowska The Battle of Olszynka Grochowska was fought on 25 February 1831 in the woods near Grochów, on the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. The Polish army, commanded by Józef Chłopicki, succeeded in preventing its Russian counterpart, under Hans Karl ...
, February 25, 1831 * Second Battle of Wawer, March 31, 1831 *
Battle of Warsaw (1831) The Battle of Warsaw was fought in September 1831 between Imperial Russia and Poland. After a two-day assault on the city's western fortifications, the Polish defences collapsed and the city was evacuated. It was the largest battle and the ...
, September 6–8


World War I and Polish-Soviet War battles

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Battle of the Vistula River The Battle of the Vistula River, also known as the Battle of Warsaw, was a Russian victory against the German Empire and Austria-Hungary on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Background By mid-September 1914 the Russians were dri ...
or the Battle of Warsaw (1914), during World War I *
Battle of Warsaw (1915) The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and the Vistula Land. The Russian Empire's critically under-equipped military suffered great ...
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Battle of Warsaw (1920) The Battle of Warsaw ( Polish: ''Bitwa Warszawska'', Russian: ''Варшавская битва'', transcription: ''Varshavskaya bitva''), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula ( Polish: ''Cud nad Wisłą''), was a series of battles that re ...
August 13–16, 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War **
Battle of Radzymin (1920) The Battle of Radzymin ( pl, Bitwa pod Radzyminem) took place during the Polish–Soviet War (1919–21). The battle occurred near the town of Radzymin, some north-east of Warsaw, between August 13 and 16, 1920. Along with the Battle of Ossó ...
, one theatre of the Battle of Warsaw


World War II battles

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Battle of Warsaw (1939) The siege of Warsaw in 1939 was fought between the Polish Warsaw Army ( pl, Armia Warszawa) garrisoned and entrenched in Warsaw and the invading German Army.Zaloga, S.J., 2002, ''Poland 1939'', Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., It began with hu ...
, siege of Warsaw during the Invasion of Poland, at the outset of World War II *
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany' ...
(1943), fought in what is now the Muranow district during World War II *
Battle of Radzymin (1944) The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the 1st Byelorussian Front of the Red Army and the Army Group Centre of the German Army. The battle was part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between 1 and 4 August 1944 at the con ...
, a clash between Soviet and German tank armies *
Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...
or Battle of Warsaw (1944) * Battle of Warsaw (1945), part of Vistula–Oder Offensive {{disambiguation