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Battle of Ulm: why did general Mack surrender to Napoleon instead of retreating to Ulm and wait for the Russian Army?
I can imagine that a lack of provisions and/or logistics of keeping ~70 000 men in a city wouldn't make the situation ideal for Mack, but with the Russian army being not that far away they could have ...
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Was there a battle at "Wodziki" in October 1914?
I found Count Posadowsky-Wehner right away in an initial Google search, in a Who is Who style work from the 1920s:
Hermann A. L. Degener (ed.), Wer ist's. VIII. Ausgabe. Leipzig: H. A. Ludwig Degener ...
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