Battle of Godow information

Battle of Godow
Part of First Silesian Uprising
Monument commemorating insurgents executed by the Grenzschutz in Godow on the 28 August 1919.
Date 17–18 August 1919 Location Godow (Near Loslau), Germany Result Polish victory
Belligerents
POW G.Śl.	Weimar Republic
Commanders and leaders
First Battle: Maksymilian Iksal Second Battle: Jan Wyglenda Mikołaj Witczak	Lt Peters
Units involved
Piotrowice Insurgent Company	Grenzschutz Ost: Hasse Regiment
Strength
First Battle: 40 insurgents Second Battle: 100 insurgents; Including 1 HMG	58 soldiers; including 2 HMGs
Casualties and losses
1 wounded	30 killed, 16 taken prisoner (of which 8 wounded)

the Battle of Godow (Polish: Bitwa pod Godowem) was a battle during the First Silesian Uprising that occurred on 18 August 1919 in the town of Godow, and resulted in a Polish victory.

The battle was predated by an earlier attempted to capture the town by an insurgent company led by Maksymilian Iksal on August 17, which resulted in failure.

The strategic goal of the Battle of Godow was opening the road between Cieszyn Silesia and Loslau, which had been blockaded by German troops.^[1]