A hold-to-light postcard of the German and Austro-Hungarian victory (shortlived) over the Russians in the Uzroker Pass in the Carpathians on January 28, 1915. Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, launched an offensive with three armies on January 23, including the new Austro-Hungarian Seventh Army under General Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin.
KarpathenSiegreiche Kämpfe am Uzroker-Paß28. Januar 1915 The CarpathiansVictorious fighting at the Uzroker PassJanuary 28, 1915Reverse:Message dated and field postmarked September 7, 1916, 29th Infantry Division.
"In the Galician Carpathians the Austro-Hungarians are putting up a fierce defence of the Uszok Pass which leads into Transylvania.In the east of East Prussia the Germans are making great efforts to cross the Niemen between Kovno and Grodno, at the very points which the Grand Army crossed on June 25, 1812."
Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, for Wednesday, September 30, 1914. After Russian forces defeated the Austro-Hungarians in the battles in Galicia, northeast Austria-Hungary, the victors tried to cross the Carpathian Mountains onto the plains of Hungary, but met with little success. To the north, German forces were stalled in their attempt to invade Russia by the same route that Napoleon had forged 102 years before.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 151, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925
Maurice Paléologue, Paléologue, September, 1914, 1914-09-30, Uszok Pass, Battle of the Passes, Transylvania, Kovno, Grodno
