On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Prussia during the opening weeks of the First World War.
In the middle of August 1914, much sooner than had been anticipated, Russia sent two armies into East Prussia, while Germany, according to its war strategy, had the bulk of its forces concentrated to the west, against France. The Russian 1st Army, under General Pavel Rennenkampf, advanced to the northeastern corner of East Prussia, while Samsonov’s 2nd Army made headway into the southwest, planning to join with Rennenkampf’s men and pin the outnumbered German 8th Army between them. After a Russian victory in the Battle of Gumbinnen on
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Though Ludendorff succumbed to nerves initially, delaying the start of the German attack by one day, Hindenburg was able to calm his subordinate—not for the last time in what would become a fabled partnership. On August 26, after intercepting uuencoded wireless messages from both Samsonov and Rennenkampf, the Germans 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. The delay in starting the attack had given Samsonov’s forces more time to advance deeper into the sack formed by the German divisions enveloping them from both sides, the strength of which Samsonov consistently underestimated. After three days of battering by German artillery, Samsonov’s troops began their retreat; more German forces cut off their path and a massive slaughter ensued. In the first hours of August 30, confronting the reality of his army’s collapse, Samsonov went into the forest, away from his staff, and shot
East Prussia was captured by the Russians in 1758. Then on aug 26 the bloody war of zorndorf started and Frederick lost one- third of his men and the Russians lost 18 thousand men, blocked their invasion of the of the Prussia heartland of Brandenburg. In aug 12,1759 the Russians defeated frederick in kinderdorf. Prussia lost nearly two thirds of their men, and the russian failed to follow of by considerate of actions with australia. In 1760-61 the australian consolidated there positions for saxony and silesia.
The battle of Gumbinnen, fought on August 20, 1914, was the second encounter between the Russian invaders and the German defenders of East Prussia. During the battle of Gumbinne German had defeated Russia. An order attack was sent out by General Francois without authorization, So when they were attacked wasn’t no one expecting it or they wasn’t ready for it. General Prittwitz was the commander of the German Eighth Army, but he didn’t know anything about the attack either. The Battle of Gumbinnen, initiated by forces of the German Empire on 20 August 1914, was a German offensive on the Eastern Front during the First World
It was to be “a lightning forty-day wheel through Belgium and northern France ending in a victorious entry march into Paris, followed by a redeployment of German armies to the east to halt the Russian steamroller.” Germany began the war on 3 August occupying the whole of France’s eastern border from Switzerland up to Luxembourg with Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, and Fourth armies. Third Army then proceeded to occupy Luxembourg, without resistance, before fighting through Belgium’s extensive fortifications beginning on 6 August and culminating on 16 August with the fall of Liège, Belgium’s most significant fortification. Afterwards, the German Army began to push First and Second armies, which combined made up over two-thirds of Germany’s Western forces, into northern France. Refer to Figure 1, Map of the First Battle of the Marne, 1914.
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