19 September 1915: The Germans captured Vilnius, following the recapture of the Przemyśl Fortress (5 June) & Lemberg (22 June, A.K.A. Lviv or Lwów) & the capture of Warsaw (5 August)—by the end of the Great Retreat in, Russia's killed, missing, or wounded tallied five hundred thousand (c. 500,000), while one million of the Tsar's soldiers had been taken prisoner (c. 1,000,000).
Lest we forget.
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