Battle of Bereza Kartuska (1919)

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Date	February 16, 1919
Location	near Bereza Kartuska, near Brzesc, Belarus
Result	Polish victory

Combatants

Poland

Bolshevist Russia

Commanders

Unknown

Strength

Unknown

Casualties

Unknown

80 captured

Polish-Soviet War
1919 *Target Vistula* – Bereza Kartuska – Pińsk – Lida – Wilno – Minsk – 1st Berezina – Daugavpils 1920 Latyczów – Mozyr – Korosteń – Koziatyn – 2nd Berezina – Kiev – Wołodarka – Głębokie – Mironówka – Olszanica – Żywotów – Miedwiedówka – Dziunków – Wasylkowce – Bystrzyk – 1st Brześć – 1st Grodno – 1st Niemen – Boryspol – Auta – Dubno – Kobryn – Łomża – Brody – Dęblin – Nasielsk – Serock – Radzymin – Warsaw – Płock – Wkra – Cyców – Ciechanów – Lwów – Zadwórze – Mława – Białystok – Komarów – Dytiatyn – 2nd Niemen – 2nd Grodno – 2nd Brześć – Mołodeczno – 2nd Minsk

Battle of Bereza Kartuska was one of the first armed conflicts between the organised forces of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia and considered by some historians the first battle of the Polish-Soviet War.^[1]

On February 14 or February 16, 1919, 57 Polish soldiers and 5 officers attacked Soviet forces in the town of Biaroza (Polish Bereza), small city to the east of Brzesc. They captured 80 soldiers of the Red Army.

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^ ^a ^b For controversies about the naming and dating of this conflict, refer to the section devoted to this subject in the Polish-Soviet War article.