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Minor Polish Battles

This is a place to put some of the material about battles or units that don't quite fit in the other sections of the site about the Poles, because they are too small or incidental to the main action.

The Battle of Wołoczyska : 11-24 July 1920

This is a sizeable battle that took place during the Poles retreat from Kiev. It was a side issue to the thrust of the Soviet First Horse Army, but no less interesting for that. The description goes into quite a lot of details of the fighting and, specifically, the Polish method of defence.

Text to the Battle of Wołoczyska

The terrain map accompanying the text

The sketch maps accompanying the text as a zip file

Skalat map and Podwoloczyska map are two period maps that give additional terrain detail

Battle of Cyców : 16 August 1920

A small action as part of the manouevre from the Wieprz.

Battle of Cyców

The Raid on Korosten' : October 1920

A fairly famous raid by the Polish cavalry deep into the Soviet rear.

The Raid on Korosten'

The original Polish version

The Police Cavalry at Warsaw

This is about an interesting unit, formed from police.

Police Cavalrymen in Defence of Warsaw during the Bolshevik Offensive of 1920

Copy in case the external link breaks

The Battle of Chełm : mid-August 1920

This is a very minor set of actions just at the crisis of the Battle of Warsaw, as Chełm held out against the slowly advancing Soviet infantry. Mostly pretty boring because it lacks much detail in the fighting, but of interest to me largely for another Police unit.

Battle for Chełm

Other Sections of Pygymy Wars

The Eyewitnesses section has a lot of smaller Polish actions, especially those involving cavalry.

The other sections relating to major Polish battles can be seen here

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