The Battle of Kowel (also known as the Battle of Kovel or the Battle of Kovel-Stanislav) took place during World War I, from 28 July to 8 August 1916. It began with an Austrian counter-attack by Alexander von Linsingen south of Kowel, a city located in the Volyn Oblast (province), in north-western Ukraine. Linsingen intended to halt the Russian offensive under the command of General Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov.
[ˈkɔʋelʲ] ; Polish: Kowel; Yiddish: קאוולע / קאוולי) is a city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kovel Raion within...
offensive. After an initial retreat, he checked the Russian advance at the BattleofKowel. He was promoted to Colonel-General, the second highest rank for a...
of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, but due to the expansion of the front of the Russian 3rd Army, it also became involved in the battles for Polesie. To the...
2005, p. 1052. Tucker 2005, p. 299. Duffy, Michael (2009-08-22). "The Battleof Bolimov, 1915". Firstworldwar.com. Archived from the original on 2006-09-03...
along a 300-kilometre long strip of the Polish-Soviet border. On 19 September he ordered all his units to march towards Kowel, where his forces were to be...
campaign (b. 1833) BattleofKowel – Austria-Hungary successfully stalled the Brusilov Offensive, inflicting tens of thousands of casualties on the Russians...
disarmed at the village of Zasmyki near Kowel March 18: first skirmishes against Germans take place March 20–27: heavy battles in the Turia river valley...
France. Battle of Kowel – Austrian forces under command of Alexander von Linsingen counterattacked Russian forces south of the city ofKowel in what is now...
order ofbattle during the invasion of Poland. In the late 1930s Polish headquarters prepared "Plan Zachód" (Plan "West), a plan of mobilization of Polish...
Collapse of the German Army in the Western Ukraine, March and April 1944. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, p. 228. Stabswache de Euros: The Kowel encirclement...
lack of fuel, the German advance had stalled and the situation stabilized in the areas east of the line Augustów – Grodno – Białystok – Kobryń – Kowel –...
operations to supply the Kowel pocket along with the other Gruppen. On the night of the 7/8 April 1944 it bombed Kiev, and Kowel on 15/16 April. Velikaya...