Battle of tannenberg

Although possessing a vastly superior force numerically, the Battle of Tannenberg proved to be an utter failure for Russian forces. At battle's end, 250,000 Russians lay dead while another 92,000 were taken prisoner. IJH

Teutonic knights battling against the Poles at the Battle of Tannenberg 1410

History Map of WWI: the Battle of Tannenberg - August 26-30, 1914; illustrating battle situation and movements August 27-30, 1914.

A Polish knight challenging the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Tannenberg (Grunwalde), Baltic Crusade

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Lithuanian Horse Archer battling against Teutonic knights at Tannenburg

The diplomatic crisis of July 1914 was not, like the two Moroccan crises, manufactured by the German foreign office. There is little or no evidence that the Germans deliberately planned war in the summer of 1914. The strongest argument against this view is that there was probably no one in the government capable of planning anything. The crisis caught the German statesmen unawares. They had now to answer the question which Bismarck had evaded: Were they to abandon Austria-Hungary, or must…

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August 30 1914: Russian Prisoners (90000 captured) after the Battle of Tannenberg. http://t.co/XWLL4fldQN http://t.co/TUvNmpjsd3

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Separated by the great Masurian Lakes, the two Russian armies, the second led by Aleksandr Samsonov, were unable to effectively communicate with each other as to their movements. On August 26, after intercepting encoded wireless messages from both Generals, the Germans, led by Helmuth von Moltke, were able to take Samsonov’s army by surprise with the force of their attack near the village of Tannenberg, to the southwest of the Masurian Lakes.

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Knights in shining armour gathered in Grunwald, northern Poland, for a re-enactment of the historic battle where Polish and Lithuanian forces defeated German Teutonic Order.

The Battle of Tannenberg was fought between Russia and Germany in World War I.

Battle of Tannenberg. An engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian 2nd Army against the German 8th Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914. The battle resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army