Battle of Warsaw (1st)

When the Austro-Hungarian Army was being driven from Galicia in the Battle of Galicia, the undefended German industrial area of Upper Silesia was threatened with a Russian offensive into the heart of Germany. In order to counter this threat, the Germans moved against the Russian centre around Warsaw. Hindenburg reached the Vistula River by 9 October and was only 19 km away from Warsaw but the German offensive began to falter. General Nikolai Ruzsky, commander of the Russian Northwest Front maneged to stop them with hard fighting.<br/>
The Germans were unfamiliar with the land and unable to bring sufficient reinforcements, therefore allowing Ruzsky to concentrate his forces against the German army. On 17 October, Hindenburg ordered a retreat, and by the 31st the battle was over. Further south Austria was checked at the San.

Germans & Austrians	Russians
Commander	Commander
Paul von Hindenburg	Nikolai Ivanov
Forces	Forces
412,000	1,066,000
Casualties	Casualties
139,567	65,000

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