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Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
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26-30 Aug 1914 — Using railways and intercepted Russian radio sent in clear, a smaller German force encircles Samsonov’s Second Army in the lake country: 92,000 prisoners. Samsonov walks into the forest and shoots himself.
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- Battle site
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- Schlieffen Plan and the Marne (chapter 4 of WWI)
- Atlas
- The Great War, 1871–1923
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- Russian Revolution
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