Battle Of The Niemen

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	caption	Battle of the Niemen Allegorical painting by Wojciech Kossak
	partof	Polish-Bolshevik War
	date	September 15 - September 25 , 1920
	place	near Grodno , along the Niemen River
	result	Decisive Polish victory
	combatant1	Russia
	combatant2	Poland
	commander1	Mikhail Tukhachevsky
	commander2	Józef Piłsudski
	strength1	~100,000 on the Western Front (September 1)
	strength2	96,300 (September 15)
	casualties1	uncertain, at least 40,000 POWs

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