The Battle of Nure ( Polish: Bitwa pod Nurem ) is one of the episodes of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831 that occurred on May 10 ( 22 ), 1831 in the territory of the rural Nur parish in Poland .
| Fight at Nur | |||
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| Main conflict: Polish uprising of 1830 | |||
| date | May 10 ( 22 ), 1831 | ||
| A place | Nur | ||
| Total | The tactical success of Russia | ||
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Having received news of the advance of the Polish rebels led by Jan SkrzyΕski from the front and a break from Nur, occupied by the Polish detachment of General (12,000 people and 20 artillery pieces), who wanted to contact the main forces of the Polish army, the Russian Guards Corps under command Karl Fedorovich Tolya [1] went over the Narew River, to Tykocin and the Yolks.
(picture from the article " Nur ",
" Military Encyclopedia of Sytin " )
Field Marshal Ivan Ivanovich Dibich-Zabalkansky , who was with the main Russian forces in Siedlce (now Siedlce ), upon learning of the Polish armyβs advance against the Guards Corps, decided to cross the Bug River and thus go on the flank of Skrzynetsky [2] .
On May 9, the vanguard of Count Ivan Osipovich Witt (9 thousand people and 32 guns), crossing the town of Granne on the right bank of the river, moved through Tsekhanovets to Nur. Nur was surrounded by a rare forest that crossed three roads: to Ciekhanovec, to Ostrov and to Chizhevo [2] .
The edge of the forest to the side of Ciechanowitz was occupied by two Polish battalions, while the main forces of the rebels stood ahead of Nur. Four battalions of the Russian Imperial Army, approaching the forest, penetrated into it and quickly drove out the Poles from there, advancing to the clearing located behind the forest, where they fell under the strong gunfire of eight enemy cannons. But the Russian artillery returned fire silenced them [2] .
Meanwhile, General Witt sent 24 squadrons and 6 guns to bypass the left flank of the enemy to Strenkov in order to take a long road to Chizhev and thus cut off Lubensky from the main forces of the Polish army. At the same time, the rest of the Russian units continued their advance towards Nur, just cleared by the enemy. Meanwhile, having reached Strenkova, the cavalry saw the retreating Poles; squadrons were deployed on both sides of the road, and Lubensky was offered to lay down weapons, but he rejected this demand and decided to break through by force. Two-time attacks were unsuccessful, and only thanks to the onset of darkness, through the swamps and thickets, the Poles managed to retreat along the side roads - to Chizhevo [2] [3] .
The losses of the Poles, according to the Sytin Military Encyclopedia , amounted to: 10 wounded, 90 killed, 159 prisoners; RIA losses: 16 killed and 74 wounded [2] .
On May 11, having gathered his detachment in Chizhev, General Lubensky moved to Zambrov, where he regained contact with the main forces of the Polish army as the vanguard of the latter [2] .
Notes
- β MaΕa Encyklopedia Wojskowa. Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej. Warszawa. 1967. Wydanie I. Tom 2
- β 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nur // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- β Nur // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Voronin V.E. Polish uprising of 1830-1831
Links
- Polish uprising of 1830 and 1863 // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1898. - T. XXIV. - S. 417-422.
- Mapa sΕuΕΌΔ ca zrozumieniu bitwy pod OstroΕΔkΔ i bitwy pod Nurem ze zbiorΓ³w Mazowieckiej Biblioteki Cyfrowej (Polish) .