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unusual facts about 4th Army



Battle of La Bassée

The German 6th Army took Lille before a British force could secure the town, while the 4th Army arrived and attacked the exposed British flank at Ypres.

Yelnya Offensive

The offensive was against the semi-circular Yelnya salient which the German 4th Army had extended 50 km south-east of Smolensk forming a staging area for a continued offensive towards Vyazma and eventually Moscow.


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Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont

In 1912, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General and received the command of the 4th Army Division based on in the Fortified Position of Namur.

Battle of Moscow

The offensive's only notable success occurred west of Moscow near Aleksino, where Soviet tanks inflicted heavy losses on the 4th Army because the Germans still lacked anti-tank weapons capable of damaging the new, well-armored T-34 tanks.

Gutian, Shanghang County

It is famous as the site of the 1929 Gutian Congress where Mao Zedong affirmed his leadership of the Zhu-Mao 4th Army (朱毛四军) and stamped out democratic tendencies among the troops.

Karl von Einem

Successfully repulsing the French Champagne-Marne offensive from February–March and September–November 1915 respectively, Einem would take part in all three Battles of the Aisne and would hold Gen. Anthoine's 4th Army (under Gen. Philippe Petain's Center Army Group) during the Second Battle of the Aisne as part of the Nivelle Offensive from April 16-May 15, 1917.

Kim Kyok-sik

Kim was then appointed commander of the 4th Army Corps and is widely believed to have commanded the November 2009 drills near the Northern Limit Line and the November 2010 shelling of Yeonpyeongdo.

Kolchak army offensive

At January, 22, 1919 Red's 1st Army connected with Turkestan Army, advanced from the Middle Asia; at January, 24, Red's 4th Army captured Uralsk.

Preston Brown

He served as Chief of Staff in the 2nd Infantry Division at Château-Thierry and Saint-Mihiel in 1918, and was Chief of Staff of the 4th Army Corps.

Stiliyan Kovachev

During the First Balkan War he commanded the Rodopi Detachment and later 4th Army.