Tannenberg
Tannenberg , Pol. Stębark, village, Warmińsko-Mazurskie prov., NE Poland, near Olsztyn. Formerly in East Prussia, it was transferred (1945) by the Potsdam Conference to Polish administration. Two important battles were fought there. In the first, fought in 1410 between Tannenberg and the nearby village of Grünwald, Polish and Lithuanian forces under Ladislaus II (Ladislaus Jagiello) halted the eastward expansion of the Teutonic Knights. The second and better-known battle occurred during World War I (Aug. 27-30, 1914). Russian armies under generals Samsonov and Rennenkampf had invaded East Prussia from the south and east, respectively. German strategy was to surround Samsonov's forces; 90,000 Russian prisoners were taken, and Samsonov committed suicide. Rennenkampf, whose unwillingness to aid Samsonov greatly facilitated the German victory, was defeated soon afterward in the battle of the Masurian Lakes. The Russian advance into East Prussia, though ill-fated, relieved considerably the German pressure against the West during the first critical weeks of the war. The battle of Tannenberg is a central event in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914 (1972).
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/1/1994; 502 words
; ...George Cruikshank, caricaturist and illustrator, 1878; Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician, 1903; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, military commander and prime minister of Japan, 1922; Piet Mondrian, abstract painter, 1944; Buster (Joseph...
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Lightning Rod.(Japan's foreign minister Makiko Tanaka)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 11/19/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...local lords to prevent them from "meddling" in state affairs. After the Meiji Restoration, noblemen led by Baron Aritomo Yamagata undermined elections with a law that barred politicians from making personnel appointments in ministries. The rules...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/1/1995; 700+ words
; ...Achenbach, landscape painter, 1905; Carlos I, King of Portugal, and the Crown Prince, assassinated 1908; Prince Aritomo Yamagata, Japanese military commander and prime minister, 1922; Piet Mondrian, abstract painter, 1944; Buster (Joseph...
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Saturday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...billion line of credit to Brazil. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Sunday, August 3
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; ...declare independence from China. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.- Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Monday, August 3
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; ...a remote Hindu temple in India. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Wednesday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...with seven more arrests made. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Tuesday, August 3
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today's Birthdays: James Wyatt, English architect (1746-1813); Koshaku Yamagata Aritomo, first prime minister of Japan (1838-1922); Dolores del Rio, U.S.-Mexican film star (1905-1983...
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Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance: January 30th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...with Britain, whose imperial grasp he saw was weakening, but he was opposed by the army chief, the formidable Yamagata Aritomo, who argued that the Russians would not stop at Manchuria. Unless prevented, they would move to dominate the whole...
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Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.(Book Review)
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Aritomo Yamagata
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Aritomo Yamagata Aritomo Yamagata (1838-1922) was a Japanese general and a member of the oligarchy which dominated Meiji Japan. He was instrumental in building a modern army, strengthening the power of the civil and military bureaucracy...
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Yamagata Aritomo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922) Japanese soldier and statesman. A member of a samurai family, he was an early opponent of the westernization...
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Kimmochi Saionji
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was appointed a commander, assisted by Aritomo Yamagata, 10 years his senior. After 10 years...alternating with those of Taro Katsura, Yamagata's prot é g é . Yet on Yamagata's recommendation Saionji became genro...
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Kei Hara
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1914. Hara was elevated to the premiership in September 1918 with the reluctant approval of conservative oligarch Aritomo Yamagata, who disliked seeing a "party man, " a member of the Lower House, and a commoner become premier, but he got...
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Hirohito
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Regent On February 4, 1918, Hirohito became engaged to Princess Nagako, daughter of Prince Kuniyoshi Kuninomiya. Aritomo Yamagata and others raised objections to the match on the grounds that Nagako was descended from the daimyos of Satsuma...
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