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1916 battle of World War I
The
Battle of Erzincan
(
Russian
:
Эрзинджанское сражение
,
Turkish
:
Erzincan Muharebesi
) was a
Russian
victory over the
Ottoman Empire
during the
First World War
.
In February 1916,
Nikolai Yudenich
had taken the cities of
Erzurum
and
Trabzon
. Trabzon had provided the Russians with a port to receive reinforcements in the
Caucasus
.
Enver Pasha
ordered the
Third Army
, now under
Vehip Pasha
, to retake Trabzon.
[3]
Vehip's attack failed and General Yudenich counterattacked on July 2.
[3]
The Russian attack hit the Turkish communications center of
Erzincan
forcing Vehip's troops to retreat as well as losing 34,000 men, half taken as
POWs
.
[3]
As a result, the Third Army was rendered ineffective for the rest of the year and
Erzincan
was captured by the Russians.
[4]
Notes
[
edit
]
- ^
Allen W. E. D., Muratoff Paul. Caucasian Battlefields: A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828?1921. Cambridge University Press. 2011. p. 411.
- ^
Boyd, Douglas (September 2014).
Other First World War: The Blood-Soaked Eastern Front
.
ISBN
978-0750957861
.
- ^
a
b
c
A Global Chronology of Conflict
, Volume Four, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 1625.
- ^
David Eggenberger,
An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 b.c. to the Present
, (Courier Dover Publications, 1985), 137.
References
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edit
]
- Spencer C. Tucker(Editor),
A Global Chronology of Conflict
, Volume Four, ABC-CLIO, 2010.
- Erzurum-Erzincan