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Battle Of Komarów
The Battle of Komarów, or the Battle of Zamość Ring, was one of the most important engagements of the Polish-Soviet War. It took place between 20 August and 2 September 1920, near the village of Komarowo (now Komarów-Osada, Komarów) near Zamość. It was the last large battle in Europe in which cavalry was used as such and not as mounted infantry.Davies, N., 1972, White Eagle, Red Star, London: Macdonald & Co, The battle ended in a disaster for the Soviet 1st Cavalry Army, which sustained heavy casualties and barely avoided being surrounded and destroyed. After the battle, the morale of the 1st Cavalry Army collapsed, and it no longer remained an effective fighting force. Eve of the battle After the Battle of Zadwórze, the forces of the Bolshevik 1st Cavalry Army under Semyon Budyonny were halted for over a day. By this time the Russian cavalry units had lost much of their initiative and had not managed to reach or intervene in the Battle of Warsaw (1920), Battle of War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolica Śniatycka
Wolica Śniatycka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komarów-Osada, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin. References Villages in Zamość County {{Zamość-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure in Polish politics and exerted significant influence on shaping the country's foreign policy. Piłsudski is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic, which was re-established in 1918, 123 years after the final partition of Poland in 1795, and was considered ''de facto'' leader (1926–1935) of the Second Republic as the Minister of Military Affairs (Poland), Minister of Military Affairs. Seeing himself as a descendant of the culture and traditions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Piłsudski believed in a multi-ethnic Poland—"a home of nations" including indigenous ethnic and religious minorities. Early in his political career, Piłsudski became a leader of the Polish Socialist Party. Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)
The 6th Cavalry Division was a cavalry division of the Red Army from the Russian Civil War to the beginning of World War II. Formed in March 1919, the division became part of the famed 1st Cavalry Army in the fall of that year, and fought in the Red Army's successful counteroffensive against the Armed Forces of South Russia. After Denikin's defeat in the spring of 1920, the division and the 1st Cavalry Army were transferred northwestwards to fight in the Polish–Soviet War, where they recaptured Kiev. During the summer of 1920, the division and the army became bogged down in the Battle of Lwów, which resulted in Soviet defeat to the north in the Battle of Warsaw, and the reinforcing 1st Cavalry Army was defeated when it attempted to intervene in the latter. This began a disorganized Soviet retreat, which the army participated in. The division and its army were transferred to Crimea, where Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel led the remnants of the White Army. After the evacuation of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Infantry Division (Poland)
13th Kresy Infantry Division (Polish: ''13 Kresowa Dywizja Piechoty'' ) was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period. It was named after Kresy. Its origins go back to the World War I, when in June 1918 the 1st Division of Polish Rifles (''1 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich'', ''1re Division de Fusils Polonais'') was formed in the French town of Villers-Marmery. On July 8, 1918, the Division consisted of 227 officers and 10.000 soldiers, and it had been planned to be used in French attack on the German town of Saarbrücken, in the fall of 1918. Armistice, signed in November 1918, changed those plans. On September 9, 1919, the unit, after having been transformed to Poland, was renamed by Józef Piłsudski into 13th Infantry Division. Soon afterwards, it took part in the Polish-Soviet War, after which it was garrisoned in Rowne and other Volhynian towns, such as Dubno, Brody, Lutsk and Wlodzimierz Wolynski. Invasion of Poland The Division, under Colonel Władysław Kaliń ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armoured Train
An armoured train (Commonwealth English) or armored train (American English) is a railway train protected with heavy metal plating and which often includes railway wagons armed with artillery, machine guns, and autocannons. Some have also had ports used to fire small arms from the inside of the train, especially in earlier armoured trains. For the most part, they were used during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower into a new location. Most countries have discontinued their use since road vehicles became much more powerful and offered more flexibility, train tracks proved too vulnerable to sabotage and attacks from the air, and air transportation was an even more flexible way to relocate firepower to a new location. However, there have been occasional uses in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Russia has used improvised armoured trains during the Second Chechen War (1999–2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Bezruchko
Marko Danylovych Bezruchko (; 1883–1944) was a Ukrainian military commander and a General of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Bezruchko was born in 1883 in Velikiy Tokmak, Taurida Governorate. In 1912 he enrolled in the Russian ''Nikolai Academy of General Staff'' in Saint Petersburg. Later numerous graduates of the Academy joined the Ukrainian People's Army such as Mykola Yunakiv. During World War I he served in the Russian army. After the revolution in Russia he returned to Ukraine, where in 1918 he joined the armed forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR). In 1918 as an officer of the General Staff he was the commander of the 1st Unit of the Army of UNR. In 1919 he became the chief of staff of the ''Independent Corps of Sich Riflemen''. In 1920, after UNR leader Symon Petliura's alliance with Poland, he became the commanding officer of the regiment-sized Ukrainian 6th Sich Rifle Infantry Division of the 2nd Polish Army under General Antoni Listowski. He comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Sich Rifle Infantry Division
6th Sich Rifle Infantry Division - an infantry division of the Ukrainian People's Army. It fought in the Kiev offensive (1920), Kiev offensive of 1920 and in further actions against the Red Army, including the Battle of Komarów. The division operated as part of the from April to May, and then as part of the from May to August. Formation This division was initially formed in Łańcut, and then in the Brest-Litovsk fortress. Later it received the title of the "6th Sich Division" and was commanded by ''pidpolkovnyk'' Marko Bezruchko. On April 22, it was subordinated to the Polish 3rd Army and was ordered to march to the front. At that time, it numbered over 2,000 soldiers. History By April 1920, the 6th Division had undergone intensive one-and-a-half-month training in Berdychiv, whose military garrison it formed. The division was additionally replenished with Ukrainian soldiers from other Internment Camps, internment camps. Simultaneously, its personnel were fully armed, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian People's Army
The Ukrainian People's Army (), also known as the Ukrainian National Army (UNA) or by the derogatory term Petliurivtsi (, ), was the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1921). They were often quickly reorganized units of the former Imperial Russian Army and newly formed volunteer detachments that later joined the national armed forces. The army lacked a certain degree of uniformity, adequate leadership to keep discipline and morale. Unlike the Ukrainian Galician Army, the Ukrainian People's Army did not manage to evolve a solid organizational structure, and consisted mostly of volunteer units, not Regular army, regulars. History Creation: Military congresses When the Tsentralna Rada () came to power in Ukraine in spring of 1917, it was forced to promptly put together an army to defend Ukraine against the Bolsheviks. Nearly all units of the newly created army were detached from the Imperial Russian Army. On March 29, 1917 the first organization of military forum the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikołaj Bołtuć
Mikołaj Bołtuć (21 December 1893 in Saint Petersburg – 22 September 1939 near Łomianki) was a brigadier general (Poland), brigadier-general of the Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic), Polish Army, commander of the 4th Infantry Division (Poland), IV Polish infantry Division during World War II. Early life He was the son of Ignacy Dołęga coat of arms, Bołtuć, General in the Imperial Russian Army, Russian Imperial Army of Szlachta, Polish noble descent, and his wife, Anna Zagłoba coat of arms, Łabuńska, of Rzeczyca. Career Bołtuć was enlisted in the Russian Cadet Corps (Russia), Cadet officers school in Omsk when he was seven. During World War I, Bołtuć served in the Imperial Russian Army. He fought with distinction in the Finnish Civil War in 1918. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he served as captain in the White Army, White Russian Army during the Russian Civil War until the evacuation of Odessa in which he commanded the last leaving vessel. He retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Krechowce Uhlan Regiment
The First Krechowce Uhlan Regiment was a mounted unit of the Polish Army, active in the Second Polish Republic. Its traditions were continued during World War II, by a regiment of the same name, which was part of Polish Armed Forces in the West. The First Krechowce Uhlan Regiment was formed in 1915, as a unit of the Imperial Russian Army. It fought in World War I, Polish–Soviet War and the Invasion of Poland, as part of Suwalska Cavalry Brigade. Until 1939, the regiment was stationed in Augustów. It ceased to exist in 1947. The first commander of the regiment was a Tsarist officer of Polish ethnicity, Colonel Bolesław Mościcki, who was killed in 1918 near Luninets. The last commander was Colonel Leon Strzelecki. The First Uhlan Regiment was formed in 1915, as part of Imperial Russian Army's Puławy Legion. To commemorate its first victorious battle against German forces, the Battle of Krechowce, which took place on 24 July 1917, the regiment was named after the village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waręż
Variazh (; ) is a village (former town) in Sheptytskyi Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 825 as of the 2024 Census. The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz. It belongs to Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. History The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż. In 1538, the settlement was granted the Magdeburg rights. It formed part of the Kingdom of Poland until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Austria. Waręż had a significant population of Jews living in the city: in 1880, there were 880 Jews; in 1900, there were 964 Jews; in 1921, there were 520 Jews. Following the restoration of independent Poland, Waręż was a part of the Polish Lwów Voivodeship (Sokal County) and – since 1934 – seat of the Gmina Waręż, a ''rural'' administrative district of Poland (Waręż does not appear on lists of town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
