history · 01 July 1917 · 107 years ago
The last Russian offensive of the Great War began. Under the command of General Aleksei Brusilov the South West Army Group attacked with twenty-three divisions (mainly comprising Finns, Siberians and Poles - the Russian being mostly unreliable). At first the offensive went well with an advance of 30 miles being achieved but the main body of Russian infantry refused to follow up and it was not long before a strong German counter-offensive threw the Russians back to the Galician frontier. Brusilov was dismissed and replaced by Lavr Kornilov.
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