Vistula

This last, under the Prince Kaidu, moved first, as had Chepe's detachment into Fergana.

At the beginning of March 1241, it crossed the Vistula at Sandumir, which it took by storm.

Then on the 18th of March, it fell upon the Polish armies of Boleslav and Miloslav at Shudu and crushed them, driving off the debris of the two armies in divergent directions.

Kaidu swept on at hurricane speed, took Krakow and then Breslau.

A day's march to the south was the army of King Wenceslas of Bohemia.

The Mongols, who were inferior in numbers to the troops of Duke Henry, struck on the 9th of April before the allied armies could effect a junction and inflicted a terrible disaster.

In less than a month, the Mongols had covered some 400 miles, fought two decisive battles, taken four great cities, and conquered Poland and Silesia from the Vistula to the borders of Saxony.

When Wenceslas of Bohemia had news of the Liechnitz disaster, he fell back to Glatz to cover his own kingdom.

Besides the distinction of receiving this promotion in battle was the unusual fact of an artilleryman being given an infantry command.

In 1920, he accompanied the Polish army in two campaigns against the Bolsheviki, the first in the spring, in which the Poles took the offensive, finally capturing Kiev, the second in the late summer, when the Poles, driven far back, finally stood on the Vistula, stopped the Bolsheviki, and then attacked, capturing such large numbers as practically to wipe the Bolsheviki army out of existence.

General Riley began his newspaper career in 1912, writing articles on American foreign affairs for the Chicago Tribune.

He continued this work until the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Historical records show Soviet rocket technicians arriving in Germany by spring nineteen forty-five under Operation Osoaviakhim, where they dismantled German launch facilities and brought back both equipment and engineering knowledge.

By summer of '46, the Soviet Union had reportedly launched a series of secret test flights from their base near Vistula, employing modified V-2 rockets that could travel beyond 400 kilometers far beyond the reach of Scandinavian airspace at the time.

If such tests were conducted during daylight hours over relatively open terrain, a misidentification by civilian observers, especially under the glare of a late summer sunset, could easily be construed as a cigar-shaped missile-like craft.

When investigators combed through Soviet military archives in 2024, they found no logged flights from any test sites that matched the exact timing or trajectory described by Swedish witnesses.

And like you say, 1920 gives it its own aspect as well, because...

It is turning the tide of Bolshevism and the threat of Russia and the miracle on the Vistula, which is this moment where they really push back the Russians against all odds.

Churchill is sat in London saying nothing can save the Poles now and has kind of written it off.

And incredibly, they succeed over the Bolsheviks.

This last, under the Prince Kaidu, moved first, as had Chepe's detachment into Fergana.

At the beginning of March 1241, it crossed the Vistula at Sandumir, which it took by storm.

Then, on the 18th of March, it fell upon the Polish armies of Boleslav and Miloslav at Shudu and crushed them, driving off the debris of the two armies in divergent directions.

Kaidu swept on at hurricane speed, took Krakow and then Breslau.

A day's march to the south was the army of King Wenceslas of Bohemia.

The Mongols, who were inferior in numbers to the troops of Duke Henry, struck on the 9th of April before the Allied armies could effect a junction and inflicted a terrible disaster.

In less than a month, the Mongols had covered some 400 miles, fought two decisive battles, taken four great cities, and conquered Poland and Silesia from the Vistula to the borders of Saxony.

When Wenceslas of Bohemia had news of the Liechnitz disaster, he fell back to Glatz to cover his own kingdom.