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The WWI Battle of Tannenberg took place on August 26-30, 1914. The battle was fought between the German and Russian armies, close to the village of Tannenberg, which is located in northeastern Poland. The Russian army was defeated by the Germans and subsequently German-controlled territory was never invaded by Russia for the remainder of the war. The Russian army incurred major losses, with 30,000 casualties and 92,000 soldiers captured by the Germans. The Germans suffered 13,000 casualties and the battle forced them to redirect their soldiers from the French battlefront.
This Battle of Tannenberg is a major event in aleksandr-solzhenitsynnovel August 1914 (1972).
A previous Battle of Tannenberg, also called the Battle of Grunewald, occurred in the same area on July 15, 1410. The battle was between the teutonic-knightsand a Polish-Lithuanian army. The Teutonic Knights were defeated and this loss marked the start of their decline in power.
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