A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 44

Grodno, but it was unhappily prejudiced to be committed his/her fortunes to
the oriental bank from the Russian artillery that repeatedly destroyed
his/her crosses through pontoon as soon as they was built. You lower down on his/her right
an attempt on the fortitude of Ossowiec showed him equally futile, because
the Germans could find anybody ground inside series solid enough to be born the
weight of their artillery. The inevitable retreat started the 27,
and you/he/she was molested by the Russian that they sadly pursue, especially in the
forest of Augustowo, where Rennenkampf asked to have inflicted
losses that amount to 60,000 men in killed, imprisoned, and wounded. Within 1
October that the Russian cavalry was again through the German frontier, and
Hindenburg had called Southerner to try in Poland to frustrate the
Russian it advances on Cracow that had his/her movement of dizziness in the north
not succeeded in checking.

The call was urgent, for the conquest of Galicia disaster foretold to
the Central Empires. Cracow was a key double to Berlin and Vienna;  his/her
possession would turn the Oders and would open it brings her/it to Silesia that was
hardly less vital to Germany that Westphalia as an extraction and
manufacturing district. It would also give access to Vienna and
you facilitate the separation of Hungary and all in that that has meant the
Balkans, from the Teutonic alliance. Also without the loss of Cracow,
that after all of Galicia enough it was serious;  its oil-sources were the
principal sources of the German provisioning of oil and his/her Slavic
population, once insured of the solidity of the Russian success is able
you throw away his/her fidelity to the Hapsburgs and you decoy the
Czecho-Slovak on his/her confinements to do the same. These perspectives were not
visionary in September 1914. Jaroslav fell on the 23 and Przemysl
you/he/she was invested. Russian cavalry rode through the passages of Carpathian in
the Hungarian plan and west of the patrols of St. it penetrated among a