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This is the order of battle for both the Russian and German armies at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 17 to September 2, 1914.
General Yakov Zhilinsky, Front Commander (not present)
Maj. Gen. Sir Alfred Knox, British Military Attache (attached to 2nd Army)
General Paul von Rennenkampf, Commander
Lt. Gen. Gavriil Mileant, Chief of Staff
II Corps (transferred from the Second Army, 22 August) – General Sergei Scheidemann
III Corps – General Nikolai Epanchin
IV Corps – General Eris Khan Sultan Giray Aliyev
XX Corps – General Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov
Unattached
5th Rifle Brigade
1st Guard Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Nikolai Kaznakov
2nd Guard Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Georgy Ottonovich Rauch
1st Cavalry Division– Lt. Gen. Vasily Gurko
2nd Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski
3rd Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Vladimir Belgard
1st Independent Cavalry Brigade
1st Heavy Artillery Brigade
General Alexander Samsonov, Commander
Maj. Gen. Postowski, Chief of Staff
I Corps – General Artamanov, relieved on August 28
– Lt. Gen Alexander Alexandrovich Dushkevich
VI Corps – General Alexander Blagoveshchensky
XIII Corps – Lt. Gen. Nikolai Klyuev
XV Corps – General Nikolai Martos
XXIII Corps – General Kyprian Kandratovich
Unattached
1st Rifle Brigade
4th Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Anton Tolpygo
6th Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Vladimir Roop
15th Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Pavel Lyubomirov
2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade
Colonel General Maximilian von Prittwitz, Commander, replaced on August 23
Colonel General Paul von Hindenburg, Commander
Maj. Gen. Erich Ludendorff, Chief of Staff
Maj. Gen. Paul Grünert, Quartermaster General
Maj. Gen. Otto Kersten, Chief Engineer
Lt. Col. Max Hoffmann, Chief of Operations
I Army Corps – General Hermann von François
Col. Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck, Chief of Staff
1st Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Richard von Conta
2nd Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Adalbert von Falk
XVII Army Corps – General August von Mackensen
35th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Otto Hennig
36th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Konstanz von Heineccius
XX Army Corps – General Friedrich von Scholtz
37th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Hermann von Staabs
41st Infantry Division – Maj. Gen. Leo Sontag
I Reserve Corps – Lt. Gen. Otto von Below
1st Reserve Division – Lt. Gen. Sigismund von Förster
3rd Reserve Division – Lt. Gen. Curt von Morgen
36th Reserve Division – Maj. Gen. Kurt Kruge
Höheres Landwehr Kommando No. 1 / 1st Landwehr Division – Lt. Gen. Georg Freiherr von der Goltz
1st Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Hermann Brecht
Other units in the field
Reinforcements
From the Western Front
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This is the complete order of battle of the French and Third Coalition armies during the Battle of Austerlitz.
This is the complete order of battle of opposing forces at the Battle of Balaclava.
The First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was a German offensive in the Eastern Front 2–16 September 1914, during the Russian invasion of East Prussia. It took place only days after the Battle of Tannenberg where the German Eighth Army encircled and destroyed the Russian Second Army. Using the rapid movements aided by the East Prussian railway network, the Eighth Army reformed in front of the spread-out Russian First Army and pushed them back across their entire front, eventually ejecting it from Germany. Further progress was hampered by the arrival of the Russian Tenth Army on the Germans' right flank.
The Battle of Wartenburg took place on 3 October 1813 between the French IV Corps commanded by General Henri Gatien Bertrand and the Allied Army of Silesia, principally the I Corps of General Ludwig von Yorck. The battle allowed the Army of Silesia to cross the Elbe, ultimately leading to the Battle of Leipzig.
The following units of the German First Army and British Expeditionary Force fought in the Battle of Mons in World War I.
The order of battle for the Nanchang Campaign
The Imperial Russian Army in June 1812 consisted of three main armies and other military formations. The Commander in Chief of the Army was Emperor Alexander I.
The Guards Cavalry Division (Garde-Kavallerie-Division) was a unit of the Prussian Army that was stationed in Berlin. The division was a part of the Guards Corps (Gardekorps).
The 3rd Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Stettin in May 1816 as a Troop Brigade (Truppen-Brigade). It became the 3rd Division on September 5, 1818. From the corps' formation in 1820, the division was subordinated in peacetime to the II Army Corps. The 3rd Division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.
The 1st Landwehr Division was an infantry division of the Imperial German Army during World War I. It was formed on the mobilization of the German Army in August 1914 under the "Higher Landwehr Commander 1" and, initially, also referred to as the "Landwehr-Division Goltz" after its commander. The Landwehr was the third category of the German Army, after the regular Army and the reserves. Thus Landwehr divisions were made up of older soldiers who had passed from the reserves, and were intended primarily for occupation and security duties rather than heavy combat.
This is an order of battle of the French and German Armies at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
The Royal Saxon Army was the military force of the Electorate (1682–1807) and later the Kingdom of Saxony (1807–1918). A regular Saxon army was first established in 1682 and it continued to exist until the abolition of the German monarchies in 1918. With the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine by Napoleon the Royal Saxon Army joined the French "Grande Armée" along with 37 other German states.
This is the German Army order of battle on the outbreak of World War I in August 1914.
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