history
Popular history of the war
Merton M. Wilner, 1919
Named on the page for Battle of Łódź (1914).
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11 November – 6 December 1914
Battle of Łódź (1914)
CHRONOLOGY
Dec. 6 — Germans take Lodz.
THE CZAR'S STEAM ROLLER
Hindenburg countered by a movement across the ill-defended Polish frontier, and by the middle of October he was before Warsaw in force. There he was defeated in a battle lasting from October 15-23d. He retreated out of Poland, drawing the Russians after him in the direction of Cracow and Czenstpchowa. But this retreat was rather strategic than forced. Transferring his army swiftly to the West Prussian front, he again entered Poland in November from the northwest. A series of desperate battles followed. The Russians, moving up from the southwest, at one time completely surrounded a considerable de- tachment of the German army under General von Morgen, but the Germans fought their way out and the Russians in early December were forced to give up Lodz and Lowicz and to retire to the line of the Bzura and Rawka rivers before Warsaw. PLUCKY SERBIANS
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