Battle of Sarikamish information

Battle of Sarikamish; Сражение при Сарыкамыше-Srazhenie pri Sarykamyshe; Sarıkamış Muharebesi; Սարիկամիշի Ճակատամարտ
	Part of the Caucasus campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre in World War I
	; Russian trenches in the forests of Sarikamish.
Date	December 22, 1914 – January 17, 1915
Location	Sarikamish, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire40°20′17″N 42°34′23″E / 40.3381°N 42.573°E
Result	Russian victory
Territorial; changes	Russia returns lands to Transcaucasia, as well as invades the border areas of the Ottoman Empire
Belligerents
Russian Empire Armenian volunteers;	Ottoman Empire; Supported by:; German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Vorontsov-Dashkov; Nikolai Yudenich; General Bergmann; Myshlayevsky	Enver Pasha; Hafiz Hakki Pasha; Bronsart Pasha; Ali İhsan Pasha (POW); Feldmann Bey; Yusuf Izzet Pasha ; Galip Pasha ; Şerif Bey (POW) ; Ziya Bey (POW); Arif Bey (POW)
Units involved
Russian Caucasus Army Russian Sarikamish Group; Russian Oltu Group;	3rd Army
Strength
78,000	Turkish estimate:; 100,000Russian estimate:; 90,000+ people and 244 guns in battle; 190,000 people and 300 guns in total
Casualties and losses
Russo-English sources:; 20,000–28,000 killed, wounded, and frostbitten	Turkish-German sources:; 60,000–78,000 killed, wounded, frostbitten, and capturedRussian sources:; 90,000 casualties; including: 28,000 KIA and 3,500 POWs

The Battle of Sarikamish^[b] was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World War I. It took place from December 22, 1914, to January 17, 1915, as part of the Caucasus campaign.

The battle resulted in a Russian victory. The Ottomans employed a strategy which demanded highly mobile troops, capable of arriving at specified objectives at precise times. This approach was based both on German and Napoleonic tactics. The Ottoman troops, ill-prepared for winter conditions, suffered major casualties in the Allahuekber Mountains. Around 25,000 Ottoman soldiers froze to death before the start of the battle.^[7]

After the battle, Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pasha, who had planned the Ottoman strategy in Sarikamish, blamed his defeat on the Armenians and the battle served as a prelude to the Armenian genocide.^[11]^[12]

^ Cite error: The named reference Muratoff252 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Aydın, Nurhan (2015). Sarikamish Operation (in Turkish). p. 40.
^ Cite error: The named reference Ozdemir444 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c "САРЫКАМЫШСКАЯ ОПЕРАЦИЯ 1914–15 • Great Russian Encyclopedia – Electronic version". old.bigenc.ru. 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
^ Олейников 2016, p. 84.
^ Muratoff, Paul; Allen, W. E. D. (1953). Caucasian Battlefields... p. 284.
^ ^a ^b Joshua A. Sanborn. Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. Oxford University Press. 2014. P. 88
^ Çakmak, Fevzi (1935). Operations on the Eastern Front in the First World War (in Turkish). pp. 73–74.
^ Sander, Liman von (1927) [1919]. Five Years in Turkey. Annapolis, Maryland: The United States Naval Constitute. ISBN 978-1-78149-197-3.
^ Олейников 2016, p. 250-251.
^ Balakian, Peter (2003). The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. New York: HarperCollins. p. 178. ISBN 0-06-019840-0.
^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-1-4008-6558-1.

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[2] Aydın, Nurhan (2015). Sarikamish Operation (in Turkish). p. 40.

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[:0-4] "САРЫКАМЫШСКАЯ ОПЕРАЦИЯ 1914–15 • Great Russian Encyclopedia – Electronic version". old.bigenc.ru. 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2024.

[FOOTNOTEОлейников201684-5] Олейников 2016, p. 84.

[6] Muratoff, Paul; Allen, W. E. D. (1953). Caucasian Battlefields... p. 284.

[Joshua_A._Sanborn_2014._P._88-7] Joshua A. Sanborn. Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. Oxford University Press. 2014. P. 88

[FevziCakmak73-9] Çakmak, Fevzi (1935). Operations on the Eastern Front in the First World War (in Turkish). pp. 73–74.

[10] Sander, Liman von (1927) [1919]. Five Years in Turkey. Annapolis, Maryland: The United States Naval Constitute. ISBN 978-1-78149-197-3.

[FOOTNOTEОлейников2016250-251-11] Олейников 2016, p. 250-251.

[Balakian-13] Balakian, Peter (2003). The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. New York: HarperCollins. p. 178. ISBN 0-06-019840-0.

[14] Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton University Press. p. 243. ISBN 978-1-4008-6558-1.

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