Thursday, August 17, 2023

Zadworze - Polish Thermopylae 17th August 1920 anniversary

 Salvete Omnes,

a short posting of the summer type





in the past I devoted 2 posts - in 2020, a detailed one  here and the funeral one  here - to the commemoration of  the last stand battle of Zadworze and its aftermath.
Today I just want to commemorate the event - one of the few  truly Thermopylae-like battles in our Polish military history.

and some  unusual illustrations showing the fighting in Zadworze done  by a painter Mieczyslaw Iwanicki (in the photo below), who was a volunteer soldier of the Abraham Detachment during the very war. 



painted and published in 1938 in a magazine titled 'Wschod' (The East) - Lwow, Stanislawow, Tarnopol.






With all those machine guns and artillery, repeating carbines and grenades etc I wonder how many horses died and were wounded in this heroic fight... 

Hail to the heroes - Pacem Aeternam to the fallen

Valete

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