First Battle Of Wawer
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The First Battle of Wawer was fought on 19 February 1831, between
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
and
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. Polish forces, led by Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, were defeated by the Russian '' Pahlen'' and ''
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'' corps, commanded by
Hans Karl von Diebitsch Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch und Narten (; 13 May 1785 – 10 June 1831) was a German-born soldier serving as Russian field marshal. Career Hans Karl was educated at the Berlin cadet school, but by the desire of his father ...
. In this battle, Polish commanders did not receive any reinforcements, unlike the Russians.


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* * Conflicts in 1831 Battles of the November Uprising Military history of Warsaw February 1831 1831 in Poland {{Russia-battle-stub