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The Kingdom of Poland ( Polish: Królestwo Polskie, German: Königreich Polen ), also known informally as the Regency Kingdom of Poland ( Polish: Królestwo Regencyjne ), was a short-lived polity that was proclaimed during World War I by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary on 5 November 1916 on the territories of formerly Russian-ruled ...
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1 day ago · The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon 's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Napoleon was retreating back toward Poland in chaos after the aborted occupation of Moscow and trying to cross the Berezina River at Borisov.
- 26–29 November 1812
- See aftermath
1 day ago · The Battle of Błonie, also known as the Battle of Zawady, was fought on 12 February 1770, during the War of the Bar Confederation, near the town of Błonie, near Warsaw. It was fought between forces of the Bar Confederation, and the Imperial Russian Army of the Tsardom of Russia. [1] [2] The Bar Confederates lost the battle against Russian ...
- 12 February 1770
- Russian victory
1 day ago · Camp of Great Poland was founded on 4 December 1926 in Poznań by Popular National Union ( Związek Ludowo-Narodowy, ZLN) and other organizations of right-wing National Democracy political camp, led by Roman Dmowski, to unite Polish right-wing organizations and oppose sanacja regime, which gained power following Józef Piłsudski 's May Coup in ...
- 1926; 97 years ago
1 day ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
