"The Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive & the Great Retreat Underway " Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 May 2015 12:04 p.m. PST |
"In May 1915 a German/Austro-Hungarian offensive was launched against Russia that would result in the greatest victory of World War I by the Central Powers. For 1915 the chief of the German General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, had decided to look to the east.
•His forces were bogged down in the west and his principal ally, Austria-Hungary, was almost "steamrollered" in the winter campaigns in Galicia.
•For his first operation, he chose to attack over the Carpathian Mountains into Galicia against Russian forces that were still attacking.
•Eight divisions were moved from the Western Front to form the new Eleventh Army under the command of aggressive general August von Mackensen.
•Flanked by two Austrian armies, the force attacked in early May near the rail centers of Gorlice & Tarnów…"
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