| Battle of the San river | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:EasternFront1914a.jpg) Eastern Front, September 1914. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Austria-Hungary German Empire |
 Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Svetozar Boroević Joseph Ferdinand Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli |
Alexei Brusilov[a] Radko Dimitriev Dmitry Shcherbachev | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Army 3rd Army 4th Army 2rd Army |
3rd Army 8th Army 11rd Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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582,466[2][b] 1,076 machine guns, 3,058 guns |
264,426[c] 679 machine guns, 1,139 guns[3] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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126,000[6]
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Battle of the San river, also known as the Second Battle of Galicia[7] (Russian: Вторая Галицкая Битва; German: Die zweite Schlacht von Galizien) was a Russian defensive operation in Galicia in the autumn of 1914. It ended with a Russian victory. The battle was fought in parallel with the offensive in Poland and East Prussia.[8]
- ^ Kernosovsky 1938, p. 428.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 75.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 77.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 89.
- ^ Conrad F. Aus meiner Dienstzeit. Bd. V. Wien, 1925. S. 399.
- ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 84.
- ^ Kernosovsky 1938, p. 427.
- ^ Battle of the Vistula River, Second Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914) (Battle of Augustów (1914))
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