Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Battle of Kock was fought between August 14 and 16, 1920 in the vicinity of the town of Kock in east-central Poland. The town was to serve as a bridgehead across the Wieprz river for Gen. Józef Piłsudski's counter-offensive against the Russian forces storming Warsaw. However, on August 14 it was captured by forces of the Russian Mozyr Group and the Poles withdrew across the river. In the early morning of August 16 the 21st Mountain Division counter-attacked and retook the town.The battle, while minor, was one of the last skirmishes of the Polish retreat from Belarus that had started in the early summer - and the first of the Wieprz Counter-offensive, the flanking manoeuvre that gave Poland the victory in the Warsaw Operation, better known as the Battle of Warsaw.. }
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- Battle_of_Kock_(1920) abstract "Battle of Kock was fought between August 14 and 16, 1920 in the vicinity of the town of Kock in east-central Poland. The town was to serve as a bridgehead across the Wieprz river for Gen. Józef Piłsudski's counter-offensive against the Russian forces storming Warsaw. However, on August 14 it was captured by forces of the Russian Mozyr Group and the Poles withdrew across the river. In the early morning of August 16 the 21st Mountain Division counter-attacked and retook the town.The battle, while minor, was one of the last skirmishes of the Polish retreat from Belarus that had started in the early summer - and the first of the Wieprz Counter-offensive, the flanking manoeuvre that gave Poland the victory in the Warsaw Operation, better known as the Battle of Warsaw.".