A gleeful Russian Cossack skewers Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph in Galicia, the Empire's northeastern region isolated from the rest of the country by the Carpathian Mountains. The caption is a play on words echoing the name of the mountain range in telling Franz Joseph, 'it seems your soldiers took to their heels.' After twin defeats in the Battles of Gnila Lipa and Rava Russka, the Austro-Hungarian Army lost the great fortress at Lemberg, and was being driven out of Galicia and back through the Carpathians. Russia's attempts to break through the Carpathians continued through April 1915, with heavy losses on both sides. The Austro-Hungarians, with German support, held.
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"On August 25 there began a great battle for the possession of Lemberg, the seat of the Austrian Government in Galicia... The contest for Lemberg raged during seven days, and extended over a distance of 200 miles from the Lublin district in Russian Poland to Halicz, south-southwest of the threatened city. By September 2nd the Austrians were completely defeated. There were thousands killed and wounded, and the Russians claimed to have taken no fewer than 70,000 prisoners, in addition to 200 guns and several standards."
Excerpt from an account by Ernest Vizetelly on the battles on the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Front and in Galicia in August and September, 1914. On August 31, 1914, the Austro-Hungarians defeated a Russian army in the Battle of Komarov. But, as in their victory in the Battle of Krasnik days before, the Russian armies to their north were still fighting forces. But in the Austro-Hungarian offensive to the east, two Russian armies were driving back an isolated Austro-Hungarian army in the Battle of Gnila Lipa. In the coming days Russia would be victorious in the Battle of Rava Russka and rout the same Austro-Hungarian armies from Galicia.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. II, 1914, pp. 185, 186, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
Battle of Krasnik, Krasnik, Battle of Komarov, Komarov, Battle of Gnila Lipa, Gnila Lipa
