Russian Caucasus Army

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=Russian Caucusus Army
Росси́йская Кавказскaя армия


caption=Soldiers of the Russian Caucasus Army in the forests of Sarikamish.
dates=1914-1918
country=Russian Empire
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branch=Regular Army
type=Field Army
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battles=Caucasus Campaign
notable_commanders=General Yudenich
Count Vorontsov-Dashkov
General Myshlaevsky
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The Russian Caucasus Army ( _ru. Росси́йская Кавказскaя армия ) of World War I was the Russian field army that fought the Caucasus Campaign. It was under the nominal command of the Governor General of the Caucasus Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov at the start of hostilities . Due to the defeats at the Battle of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, the Russians redeployed almost half their forces to the Prussian front, leaving behind just 65,000 troops from initial 100,000 to face the Ottoman army .

Order of Battle, 1914

Russian Caucasus Army had 100 battalions of infantry, 117 sotnis (cavalry squadrons), and 256 guns for a total of 100,000 troops in the following formationscite book
last = Hinterhoff
first = Eugene
author link =
title =The Campaign in Armenia. Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I, vol ii
publisher = Marshall Cavendish Corporation
date =1984
location =New York
pages = p.500
isbn = 0-86307-181-3] :
* I Caucasian Army Corps: General Bergmann
**2 infantry divisions
**2 cossack rifle brigades
**1st Caucasian Cossack division: General Baratov
*II Turkistan Army Corps
**4 brigades

References

ee also

*Cossacks
*Armenian volunteer units