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Battle of Komarów

Index Battle of Komarów

The Battle of Komarów, or the Zamość Ring, was one of the most important battles of the Polish-Soviet War. [1]

57 relations: Aircraft, Armoured train, Artillery, Battle, Battle of the Niemen River, Battle of Warsaw (1920), Battle of Zadwórze, Bug River, Cavalry, Ceasefire, Charge of Rokitna, Friendly fire, Hrubieszów, Jan Romer, Józef Piłsudski, Joseph Stalin, Juliusz Rómmel, Killed in action, Kliment Voroshilov, Komarów-Osada, Lucjan Żeligowski, Lviv, Machine gun, Marko Bezruchko, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Mikołaj Bołtuć, Mounted infantry, Poland, Polish cavalry, Polish Land Forces, Polish–Soviet War, Prisoner of war, Red Army, Rivne, Second Polish Republic, Semyon Budyonny, Stanisław Haller, Stanisław Maczek, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Volhynia, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Wagon fort, Władysław Sikorski, Wladyslaw Jedrzejewski, Wolica Śniatycka, Zamość, Zamość Fortress, 10th Infantry Division (Poland), 12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment, 13th Infantry Division (Poland), ..., 14th Jazlowiec Uhlan Regiment, 1st Cavalry Army, 1st Krechowce Uhlan Regiment, 2nd Grochow Uhlan Regiment, 2nd Legions Infantry Division (Poland), 8th Uhlan Regiment of Duke Jozef Poniatowski, 9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment. Expand index (7 more) »

Aircraft

An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Armoured train

An armoured train is a railway train protected with armour.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Battle

A battle is a combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.

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Battle of the Niemen River

The Battle of the Niemen River was the second-greatest battle of the Polish–Soviet War.

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Battle of Warsaw (1920)

The Battle of Warsaw refers to the decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War.

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Battle of Zadwórze

Battle of Zadwórze (sometimes referred to as the "Polish Thermopylae") was a battle of the Polish-Soviet War.

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Bug River

The Bug River (Bug or Western Bug; Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh, Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh; Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Bug) is a major European river which flows through three countries with a total length of.

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Cavalry

Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

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Ceasefire

A ceasefire (or truce), also called cease fire, is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.

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Charge of Rokitna

The Charge of Rokitna (Szarża pod Rokitną) was a charge of a cavalry squadron of the 2nd Brigade of Polish Legions, fighting for the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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Friendly fire

Friendly fire is an attack by a military force on non-enemy, own, allied or neutral, forces while attempting to attack the enemy, either by misidentifying the target as hostile, or due to errors or inaccuracy.

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Hrubieszów

Hrubieszów (Грубешів Hrubeshiv, הרויעשאוו) is a town in southeastern Poland, with a population of around 18,212 (2016).

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Jan Romer

Jan Romer (1869 in Lwów – 1934 in Warsaw) was a Polish general and military commander.

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Józef Piłsudski

Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman; he was Chief of State (1918–22), "First Marshal of Poland" (from 1920), and de facto leader (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic as the Minister of Military Affairs.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Juliusz Rómmel

Juliusz Karol Wilhelm Rómmel (3 June 1881 – 8 September 1967) was a Polish military commander, a general of the Polish Army and a member of the civil rights movement.

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Killed in action

Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own combatants at the hands of hostile forces.

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Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Kliment Jefremovič Vorošilov; Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, Klyment Okhrimovyč Vorošylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Клим Вороши́лов, Klim Vorošilov) (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era.

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Komarów-Osada

Komarów-Osada is a village in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

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Lucjan Żeligowski

Lucjan Żeligowski (1865–1947) was a Polish general, politician, military commander and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; Львов; Lwów; Lemberg; Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016.

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Machine gun

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm designed to fire bullets in rapid succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of 300 rounds per minute or higher.

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Marko Bezruchko

Marko Danylovych Bezruchko (1883–1944) was a Ukrainian military commander and a General of the Ukrainian National Republic.

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Michał Rola-Żymierski

Michał Rola-Żymierski (September 4, 1890October 15, 1989) was a Polish high-ranking Communist Party leader, communist military commander, NKVD secret agent, and Marshal of Poland by Joseph Stalin's order from 1945 until his death.

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Mikołaj Bołtuć

Mikołaj Bołtuć (born 21 December 1893 in Petersburg, killed in battle 22 September 1939 near Łomianki) was a brigadier-general of the Polish Army, commander of the IV Polish infantry Division during World War II.

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Mounted infantry

Mounted infantry were infantry who rode horses instead of marching.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Polish cavalry

The Polish cavalry (jazda, kawaleria, konnica) can trace its origins back to the days of medieval mounted knights.

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Polish Land Forces

The Land Forces (Wojska Lądowe) are a military branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland.

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Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was fought by the Second Polish Republic, Ukrainian People's Republic and the proto-Soviet Union (Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine) for control of an area equivalent to today's western Ukraine and parts of modern Belarus.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Rivne

Rivne (Рівне; Rovno; Równe) is a historic city in western Ukraine and the historical region of Volhynia.

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Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, commonly known as interwar Poland, refers to the country of Poland between the First and Second World Wars (1918–1939).

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Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (a; – October 26, 1973) was a Russian cavalryman, a military commander during the Russian Civil War and World War II, and a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

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Stanisław Haller

Stanisław Haller (April 26, 1872 – April 1940) was a Polish politician and general, also cousin of General Józef Haller von Hallenburg of Haller coat of arms.

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Stanisław Maczek

General Stanisław Maczek (31 March 1892 – 11 December 1994) was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and SS divisions.

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Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

General Tadeusz Komorowski (1 June 1895 – 24 August 1966), better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader.

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Volhynia

Volhynia, also Volynia or Volyn (Wołyń, Volýn) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe straddling between south-eastern Poland, parts of south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine.

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Volodymyr-Volynskyi

Volodymyr-Volynskyi (Володимир-Волинський, Włodzimierz Wołyński, Влади́мир-Волы́нский, לודמיר, Lodomeria) is a small city located in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine.

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Wagon fort

A wagon fort is a mobile fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, a circle or other shape and possibly joined with each other, an improvised military camp.

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Władysław Sikorski

Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish military and political leader.

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Wladyslaw Jedrzejewski

Wladyslaw Jedrzejewski (11 February 1863 - 1940) was a General of the Polish Army, who was probably murdered by the NKVD in Lwow, in March 1940.

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Wolica Śniatycka

Wolica Śniatycka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komarów-Osada, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

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Zamość

Zamość (Yiddish: זאמאשטש Zamoshtsh) is a city in southeastern Poland, situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine.

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Zamość Fortress

Zamość Fortress (Twierdza Zamość) is a set of fortifications constructed together with the city of Zamość (southeastern Poland).

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10th Infantry Division (Poland)

10th Infantry Division (10. Dywizja Piechoty) was a unit of the Polish Army during the interbellum period, which took part in the 1939 German Invasion of Poland.

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12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment

12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment (Polish language: 12 Pulk Ulanów Podolskich, 12 p. ul) was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army.

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13th Infantry Division (Poland)

13th Kresy Infantry Division (Polish: 13 Kresowa Dywizja Piechoty) was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period.

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14th Jazlowiec Uhlan Regiment

14th Jazlowiec Uhlan Regiment (Polish language: 14 Pulk Ulanów Jazlowieckich, 14 p.ul.) was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic, also a unit of Polish Armed Forces in the West and the Home Army.

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1st Cavalry Army

The 1st Cavalry Army (Первая конная армия) was a prominent Red Army military formation.

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1st Krechowce Uhlan Regiment

The First Krechowce Uhlan Regiment was a mounted unit of the Polish Army, active in the Second Polish Republic.

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2nd Grochow Uhlan Regiment

The 2nd Grochow Uhlan Regiment of General Jozef Dwernicki (2 Pulk Ulanow Grochowskich im.) was a cavalry regiment of Polish I Corps in Russia, Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic, and the Home Army during Operation Tempest (1944).

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2nd Legions Infantry Division (Poland)

Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division (2. Dywizja Piechoty Legionów) was a tactical unit of the Polish Army between the World Wars.

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8th Uhlan Regiment of Duke Jozef Poniatowski

8th Uhlan Regiment of Prince Jozef Poniatowski (Polish language: 8 Pulk Ulanow Ksiecia Jozefa Poniatowskiego, 8 p. ul.) was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army in the Second Polish Republic.

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9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment

The 9th Lesser Poland Uhlan Regiment (Polish language: 9 Pulk Ulanow Malopolskich) was a cavalry regiment of the Polish Army, formed on November 21, 1918.

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Redirects here:

Battle of Komarow, Battle of Komarowo, Bitwa pod Komarowem, Komarow, Komarów.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Komarów

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