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Battle Of Brest (1655)
Numerous actions have been termed the Battle of Brest, Brest being the name of two important fortress towns in France and Belarus, respectively, and two small towns, one in Croatia, and the other in North Macedonia. Brest, Croatia *The Battle of Brest (1592), part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War *The Battle of Brest (1596), part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War and the Long War (1591–1606) Brest, France *The Battle of Brest (1342) - a siege of the Hundred Years' War. *The Siege of Brest (1386) - a siege of the Hundred Years' War. *The Battle of Saint-Mathieu - a naval battle off the port during the War of the League of Cambrai in 1512, often called the ''battle of Brest''. *The Attack on Brest - a failed attack in 1694 by the English to destroy the harbor of Brest during the War of the Grand Alliance *Various naval actions of the eighteenth century, including those sometimes termed the First Battle of Ushant, First, Second Battle of Ushant, Second or Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brest (1592)
The Battle of Brest () was fought on 19 July 1592 between the Ottoman forces of Hasan Pasha Predojević, Beylerbey, Beglerbeg of Bosnia Eyalet, Bosnia, and the Holy Roman Empire, Germanic and Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatian forces led by Tamás Erdődy, Ban of Croatia. The battle was a part of the Croatian–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy. The Ottoman forces were about 7,000-8,000 men from the recently captured fortress of Bihać, and Erdödy's army consisted of 1,600 infantry and 400 cavalry from Duchy of Styria, Styria, 500 men arrived under Erdödy's command, and an unknown number (several hundred) of peasants from Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia. In total, the forces gathered at Erdödy's camp were about 3,000 men. Predojević arrived near Brest Pokupski, Brest with the bulk of his army on 18/19 July at night, and on 19 July he separated his forces in order to attack. Croatian forces were crushed an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle For Brest
The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front (World War II), Western Front during World War II. Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the Allied plan for the Operation Overlord, invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war wikt:materiel, materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces. It was estimated that the 37 Allied divisions to be on the continent by September 1944 would need 26,000 tons of supplies each day. The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, France, Brest, in northwestern France. Background Early in the war, after the Fall of France in 1940, the United States and the United Kingdom began planning an eventual "Invasion of Western Europe" to be put into effect when and if the United States joined the war. American and Canadian troops would be moved from North America to England un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defense Of Brest Fortress
The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941. The German Army attacked without warning, expecting to take Brest on the first day, using only infantry and artillery, but it took them a week, and only after two bombardments by the ''Luftwaffe''. Many defenders were killed or captured. Background The area around the nineteenth-century Brest Fortress was the site of the 1939 Battle of Brześć Litewski, when the German XIX Panzer Corps captured it from the Polish Army during the Polish September Campaign. According to the terms of the 1939 German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, the territory around Brest and 52 per cent of Poland was assigned to the Soviet Union.Robert Kirchubel, ''Operation Barbarossa 1941 (3): Army Group Center'', Osprey Publishing, 2007, Google Print, p.44/ref> In the summer of 1941, the Germans advanced to capture the fortress from the Red Army. The Germans planned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brześć Litewski
The Battle of Brześć Litewski (also known as the siege of Brześć, battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply battle of Brześć) was a World War II battle involving German and Polish forces that took place between 14 and 17 September 1939, near the town of Brześć Litewski (now Brest, Belarus). After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew. History Before the battle Initially, the Polish forces did not plan to defend the old fortress of Brześć. The town was located deep behind the Polish lines and was seen as a supply depot and organisation centre rather than a front-line fort. However, after the Battles of Mława and Wizna the German XIX Panzer Corps under General Heinz Guderian broke through Polish lines and sped southward with the aim of flanking Warsaw from the East and cutting Poland in two. According to the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939, the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brest (1794)
The Battle of Brest (Brześć in Polish language, Polish), also known as the Battle of Terespol, took place between Russian imperial forces and Polish rebels south-west of Brest, Belarus, Brest (near the village of Terespol), present-day Belarus, on 19 September 1794. It was part of the Kościuszko Uprising. Preparations The Russian forces were commanded by General-in-Chief Alexander Suvorov, who a little earlier, taking advantage of inferior numbers, had defeated his men in the Battle of Krupczyce. Suvorov met Sierakowski again on the battlefield. Before 19 September, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish rebels fortified themselves in the marshes near the town of Brest, Belarus, Brest. At night (at 2 AM, according to one source), Alexander Suvorov moved his troops near the Polish positions, having forded the Western Bug river, and attacked at dawn. Polish forces consisted of Sierakowski's force with a detachment of Mokronowski from Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lithuania for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brest (1792)
The Battle of Brest (; ), was defensive battle of 5,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops tried to cover the way to Warsaw from the Russians. An equally strong Russian detachment was acting against them. On July 21, a dragoon raid took place on Polish-Lithuanian positions in front of the city, the Polish-Lithuanian forces retreated into the city itself. On July 23, a battle took place at dawn, the defenders held out for a long time, but after they ran out of ammunition Ammunition, also known as ammo, is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. The term includes both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines), and the component parts of oth ... they were forced to retreat. Poles lost 356 killed and 66 captured, while the Russians lost only 12 dead and 43 wounded. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
Armed conflicts between Poland (including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland) and Russia (including the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Tsardom of Russia and the Principality of Moscow) include: : : : *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Poland or Russia in which the other intervened, ''status quo ante bellum'', or a treaty or peace without a clear result. Piast Poland versus Kievan Rus' Crown of the Kingdom of Poland versus Principality of Moscow Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth versus Tsarist Russia Polish states and rebels versus Russian Empire Second Polish Republic versus Soviet Union See also * Hungarian Revolution of 1848 * Baikal Insurrection * War of the Fourth Coalition * Civil war in Poland (1704–1706) * War of the Polish Succession * Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) * Polish October * Martial law in Poland * * List of wars and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brest (1655)
Numerous actions have been termed the Battle of Brest, Brest being the name of two important fortress towns in France and Belarus, respectively, and two small towns, one in Croatia, and the other in North Macedonia. Brest, Croatia *The Battle of Brest (1592), part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War *The Battle of Brest (1596), part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War and the Long War (1591–1606) Brest, France *The Battle of Brest (1342) - a siege of the Hundred Years' War. *The Siege of Brest (1386) - a siege of the Hundred Years' War. *The Battle of Saint-Mathieu - a naval battle off the port during the War of the League of Cambrai in 1512, often called the ''battle of Brest''. *The Attack on Brest - a failed attack in 1694 by the English to destroy the harbor of Brest during the War of the Grand Alliance *Various naval actions of the eighteenth century, including those sometimes termed the First Battle of Ushant, First, Second Battle of Ushant, Second or Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Battle Of Ushant
The Third Battle of Ushant or the action of 20–21 April 1782 was a naval battle fought during the American Revolutionary War, between a French naval fleet of three ships of the line protecting a convoy and two British Royal naval ships of the line off Ushant, a French island at the mouth of the English Channel off the northwesternmost point of France. This was the third battle that occurred in this region during the course of the war. Background Despite the American Revolutionary War breaking out in North America, the fighting soon spilled over into Europe and the East Indies between the British and the French. The British had received intelligence that the French were dispatching a small fleet from Brest, which was destined for the Indian subcontinent to supply Pierre André de Suffren's fleet in his campaign to recapture French possessions previously captured by the British in the Seven Years' War and secure naval supremacy in the region against a British fleet under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Brest (1596)
The Battle of Brest (1596) () was fought on September 19, 1596 between the Ottoman forces of Achmed Hafis Pasha, Beylerbey of Vidin, and the Germanic and Croatian forces led by Ivan Drašković, Ban of Croatia. The battle was a part of the Croatian–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy. Prelude Brest is a village near Petrinja, on the left bank of the Kupa river. In 1562, a small fortress (lat. castellum) was built there in order to defend against frequent Ottoman raids. In 1592, Hasan Pasha Predojević built the fortress of Petrinja nearby, and defeated a joint Styrian- Croatian army gathered to oppose him in the battle of Brest. After their victory, the Ottomans sacked and burned the fortress of Brest and raided Turopolje region. Battle Forces of Ahmed Hafis Pasha, Beylerbey of Vidin, reinforced by troops of Bosnian Beylerbey Hodaberdi, besieged Petrinja on September 10, 1596. In response, by September 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
