Draft:Battle Of Orlau-Frankenau

Battle of Orlau-Frankenau
	Part of Russian invasion of East Prussia (1914)
	; Registration of German POWs
Date	24 August 1914
Location	Near Olsztyn, present day Poland
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
German Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Friedrich von Scholtz	Alexander Samsonov
Units involved
XX Corps	2nd Army
Casualties and losses
6000 killed, wounded and captured	4000 killed, wounded and missing

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Comment: You're citing Wikipedia, on Wikipedia. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:56, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

The Battle of Orlau-Frankenau was fought on 24 August 1914 in the opening phase of the 1914 Russian invasion of East Prussia during the First World War.

It was the first clash between the German troops of General Friedrich von Scholtz, deployed to defend the southern border of East Prussia, and the leading departments of the 2nd Russian Army engaged in a difficult pincer maneuver in the wooded and marshy Prussian territory. The Russian troops of General Nikolaj Martos's XV Corps attacked the German defensive positions and managed to prevail despite suffering heavy losses in frontal attacks in the open.

The battle was won by the Russians under General Martos who continued to advance and General von Scholtz had to retreat towards the north-west but he managed to maintain the cohesion of his troops, gaining time and giving Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff the opportunity to concentrate the forces of the 8th Army and win the decisive battle of Tannenberg within a few days.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Works cited

Asprey, Robert B. (1993), The German High Command, Rizzoli
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1971), August 1914, Mondadori
Tuchman, Barbara W. (1999), The Guns of August, Bompiani

[FOOTNOTEAsprey1993-1] Asprey 1993.

[FOOTNOTESolzhenitsyn1971-2] Solzhenitsyn 1971.

[FOOTNOTETuchman1999-3] Tuchman 1999.

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