Battle of the San river (1914)
| Battle of the San river | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
Eastern Front, September 1914. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Austria-Hungary German Empire | Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Svetozar Boroević Joseph Ferdinand Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli |
Alexei Brusilov Radko Dimitriev Dmitry Shcherbachev | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Army 3rd Army 4th Army 2rd Army |
3rd Army 8th Army 11th Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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582,466 1,076 machine guns, 3,058 guns |
264,426 679 machine guns, 1,139 guns | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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240,000
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126,000
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Battle of the San river, also known as the Second Battle of Galicia (Russian: Вторая Галицкая Битва; German: Die zweite Schlacht von Galizien) was a Russian defensive operation in Galicia in the autumn of 1914. It ended with a Russian victory. The battle was fought in parallel with the offensive in Poland and East Prussia.