Battle of Erzincan

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Battle of Erzincan
Эрзинджанское сражение
Երզնկայի ճակատամարտ
Erzincan Savaşı
Part of
Erzurum Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Result Russian victory
Territorial
changes		 Russians capture Erzincan
Belligerents Russian Empire  Ottoman EmpireCommanders and leaders
Nikolai Yudenich
Ottoman Empire Wehib Pasha
Ottoman Empire Topal OsmanStrength
Russian Caucasus Army Greek Caucasus Division
Third ArmyCasualties and losses 12,000[1] 34,000, of them 17,000 captured[2]

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,

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ISBN 978-0750957861
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  3. ^ a b c A Global Chronology of Conflict, Volume Four, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 1625.
  4. ^ 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

  • Spencer C. Tucker(Editor), A Global Chronology of Conflict, Volume Four, ABC-CLIO, 2010.
  • Erzurum-Erzincan

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