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    47222; 22.65167 Osowiec Fortress (Polish: Twierdza Osowiec; Russian: Крепость Осовец, romanized: Krepost' Osovets) is a 19th-century fortress built by the...
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    of the Dead Men, or the Battle of Osowiec Fortress, was a battle of World War I that took place at Osowiec Fortress (now northeastern Poland), on August...
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    infantry Regiment, which later became part of the garrison of the Osowiec Fortress. Despite this, not much is known about Kotlinsky's career prior to...
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    Army futilely struggled to break the defensive belt represented by Osowiec Fortress, which successfully defended the Tsarist troops. During the fighting...
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  • Osowiec may refer to: Osowiec, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland) Osowiec, Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland) Osowiec, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central...
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    of World War II it was reinforced with a machine gun company from Osowiec Fortress under Captain Władysław Raginis, as well as numerous smaller detachments...
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    Engineering. During World War I he served as second lieutenant at the Osowiec Fortress. In 1915, he was severely wounded in the Attack of the Dead Men. In...
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    Front with the 8th Army and joined the ongoing attack on Osowiec Fortress. Although the fortress was made of masonry, it survived because the artillery...
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    move further north. Infantry elements of the 87th Division captured Osowiec Fortress on 26 June, and Fegelein's cavalry was sent on a reconnaissance mission...
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    Army to Riga), where the evacuation of the Osowiec fortress was being completed: the abandonment of the fortress threatened the 20th Army Corps, which was...
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    Chatkol Siege of Silistra Battle of Lanzerath Ridge Firebase Bird Osowiec Fortress Battle of Bolimów Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive Great Retreat (Russian)...
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    Men 6 August Russian forces repel German gas attack and advance on Osowiec Fortress Battle of Lone Pine 6–10 August Australians stop Ottoman attack, but...
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    Hartwig von Beseler's siege guns forced its surrender on 20 August. The Osowiec Fortress was also eventually abandoned by the Russians, followed by a German...
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    (Kura) Khanate 2nd Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky, commander of the Osowiec Fortress during the Attack of the Dead Men Marshall of the Soviet Union Georgy...
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    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Retrieved 17 February 2019. "'Fortress in a city': steel plant becomes Ukrainian hold-out in Mariupol". The Guardian...
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    chlorine gas against Russian troops defending Osowiec Fortress. The Russians demolished much of Osowiec and withdrew on 18 August. In October, Hindenburg...
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    headquarters. In late March 1890, he was appointed the chief of staff of the Osowiec Fortress in Russian Poland. The same year he was promoted to colonel, after...
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    November 2 near the village of Nowinka. In the forests surrounding the Osowiec Fortress, 9th Home Army Mounted Rifles were concentrated under Wiktor Konopka...
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    Biebrza National Park (category Osowiec-Twierdza)
    park's headquarters is located in Osowiec-Twierdza 8 village, within the grounds of the historic Osowiec Fortress from the 19th century, near Goniądz...
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    Fortified Area Silesia, some units, including Raginis, instead went to Osowiec Fortress, near the border with East Prussia. In anticipation of the outbreak...
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    Grodno on 19 July; the strategically important and easy to defend Osowiec Fortress was captured by Bzhishkyan's 3rd Cavalry Corps on 27 July. Białystok...
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    against Russian troops defending Osowiec Fortress. Surviving defenders drove back the attack and retained the fortress. The event would later be called...
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    villages of Radziłów, Stawiski and Kolno. The Osowiec garrison was defending on the distant approaches to the fortress. Commandant Lieutenant General K. Shulman...
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    Brest-Litovsk Fortress Warsaw Fortress Ivangorod Fortress Zegrze Fortress Łomża Novogeorgievsk Fortress Osowiec Fortress Ostrolenka Pułtusk Rozhany Grodno...
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  • Ostrołęka, Łomża and Nowogród. One of divisional units was sent to Osowiec Fortress. In the first three days of the Invasion of Poland, the division had...
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    Russian Osowiec fortress in Northeast Poland. In June 1915 the battery then took part in the successful recapture of the former Austro-Hungarian fortress of...
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    Colonel D. von Schwerin, who proved the unprofitability of the attack on Osowiec Fortress and offered to shift the blow to Łomża and to the west, was not listened...
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    Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. German forces laid siege to Osowiec Fortress in the Russian Empire (now north-eastern Poland), using up to 60 artillery...
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  • detached from the brigade to relieve German troops garrisoning the Osowiec Fortress, which fell in the Soviet sphere of influence under the Molotov–Ribbentrop...
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    the Narew river line with important bridgeheads at Różan, Ostrołęka, Osowiec Fortress, Nowogród, Łomża and Wizna, and to cover the right flank of the Modlin...
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