Martin Antonenko
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The greatest siege of World War I ends:
The Fortress Przemyśl surrenders!
On March 22, 1915, the Austro-Hungarian fortress Przemyśl in Galicia (now Poland) surrenders to the Russian army!
With this the greatest siege of the First World War comes to an end; at the same time it is one of the worst defeats of the KuK monarchy in this war.
110,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers march into captivity!
In the autumn of 1914, the Austrians had already lost the battle for the Galician capital Lemberg (Lwow in Russian, today Lwiw / Ukraine) against the of General Nikolaj Iwanow ...
... led Russians and then fled more than a hundred kilometers to the west.
Przemysl was there from the Russian 3rd Army under General Radko Dimitriew ...
... has been locked in from September 16, 1914.
When the Austrians, under further pressure, retreat further west across the San River, the enclosed fortress remains completely isolated behind the Russian lines.
To the commander of the fortress, Feldmarschalleutnant Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten ...
... has the 23rd (Hungarian regular) Honved Division and the second-rate 93rd, 97th, 108 and 111th Landsturm Brigades in the fortress.
Together with four honved marching regiments and the pioneer group under Major General Nickel, there are 65 infantry battalions in the fortress, most of them of Ruthenian and Hungarian origin - a total of around 130,000 men ...:
The fortress artillery is largely out of date; of the 38 beltworks of the outer defensive ring, only twelve have been modernized and provided with reinforced ceilings.
Of a total of 988 fortress guns, only 28 are state-of-the-art.
First of all, the Russians are trying to take Przemyśl by storm!
For three days (September 22 to 24, 1914) there is attack after attack - but Przemyśl holds out and the Russians lose more than 40,000 soldiers in three days!
When the German 9th Army under Feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg ...
... from Silesia starts a relief attack on Russian Poland and marches on Warsaw, the siege of Przemyśl must first be broken off because the troops standing there are needed more urgently in front of Warsaw.
**continued next post**
The Fortress Przemyśl surrenders!
On March 22, 1915, the Austro-Hungarian fortress Przemyśl in Galicia (now Poland) surrenders to the Russian army!
With this the greatest siege of the First World War comes to an end; at the same time it is one of the worst defeats of the KuK monarchy in this war.
110,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers march into captivity!
In the autumn of 1914, the Austrians had already lost the battle for the Galician capital Lemberg (Lwow in Russian, today Lwiw / Ukraine) against the of General Nikolaj Iwanow ...
... led Russians and then fled more than a hundred kilometers to the west.
Przemysl was there from the Russian 3rd Army under General Radko Dimitriew ...
... has been locked in from September 16, 1914.
When the Austrians, under further pressure, retreat further west across the San River, the enclosed fortress remains completely isolated behind the Russian lines.
To the commander of the fortress, Feldmarschalleutnant Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten ...
... has the 23rd (Hungarian regular) Honved Division and the second-rate 93rd, 97th, 108 and 111th Landsturm Brigades in the fortress.
Together with four honved marching regiments and the pioneer group under Major General Nickel, there are 65 infantry battalions in the fortress, most of them of Ruthenian and Hungarian origin - a total of around 130,000 men ...:
The fortress artillery is largely out of date; of the 38 beltworks of the outer defensive ring, only twelve have been modernized and provided with reinforced ceilings.
Of a total of 988 fortress guns, only 28 are state-of-the-art.
First of all, the Russians are trying to take Przemyśl by storm!
For three days (September 22 to 24, 1914) there is attack after attack - but Przemyśl holds out and the Russians lose more than 40,000 soldiers in three days!
When the German 9th Army under Feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg ...
... from Silesia starts a relief attack on Russian Poland and marches on Warsaw, the siege of Przemyśl must first be broken off because the troops standing there are needed more urgently in front of Warsaw.
**continued next post**
