The Campaign in Russian Poland

General Rennenkampf received from the Tsar telegrams congratulating him upon his well-ordered retreat and his victorious counter-attack and resumed invasion of East Prussia. In...

At the beginning of November, just three months after the declaration of war, it seemed that the German invasion of Poland had ended in complete failure and that the battle befo...

We shall now proceed to follow the fortunes of the Russo-Austrian campaign immediately after the capture of Lemberg in the early days of September. Such a substantial success na...

“When Przemysl falls,” wrote Mr. Granville Fortescue in the _Daily Telegraph_, “the name of Radko Dimitrieff will ring around the world.” It was not, however, the immediate obje...

The Austrian Army in these Polish campaigns suffered under the serious disadvantage that, amongst the various nationalities serving in it, there were many men whose sympathies w...

General Rennenkampf’s brilliant raid into East Prussia--which admirably served its immediate purpose of causing the Germans to transfer great masses of men from the west to the...

The armies of the Tsar had by the middle of September established so firm a foothold upon Austrian territory, and so remote were the chances of their being dislodged from it, th...

The capture of the important town of Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, by the forces of the Tsar during the first week of September may be said to have marked an epoch in the ope...