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36th Reserve Field Artillery, 143, 303–04

1st Dragoons, 152

10th Dragoons, 223

11th Dragoons, 223

5th Hussars, 263, 306, 308

4th Mounted Rifles, 263, 291

10th Mounted Rifles, 280, 304, 316

8th Uhlans, 278, 280, 304

1st Reserve Uhlans, 245, 290

Air Battalion 2, 152

Air Detachment 14, 153–54, 311

Air Detachment 16, 158, 287, 312

Other German formations

2nd Army, 294

3rd Army, 294–95

5th Army, 294–95

V Corps, 132, 294

XI Corps, 294, 295, 326

XXI Corps, 294

I Bavarian Corps, 294

Guard Reserve Corps, 294, 295–96

8th Cavalry Division, 294

Russian formations

Stavka, 132

Northwest Front, 132–33, 231–32, 301–02

1st Army: formation, 132–34, 137–38; at Stallupönen, 163–70; Gumbinnen, 173–90; failure to pursue, 207–08, 229–30, 300–02

2nd Army: formation, 132–35; initial advance of, 158, 169–70; lines of march changed, 213–14, 221, 231–32; difficulties of, 215–18; orders to continue attack on August 27, 266–69; collapse of, 297–98, 307–09

I Corps, 213–14, 218, 221, 231–32, 233–34, 250–52, 255

II Corps, 213, 247, 301

III Corps, 137, 301

IV Corps, 137, 189, 247, 301

VI Corps, 213, 218, 221, 231–32, 242–48, 258, 266–69, 315–17

XIII Corps, 213, 218, 221, 231–32, 258–59, 266–69, 275, 277, 297, 300, 307–08, 309

XV Corps, 213, 217, 218, 221, 223, 231–32, 258–59, 266–69, 307–08, 314, 315–17

XX Corps, 137, 173, 301

XXIII Corps, 213, 218

3rd Guard Division, 218, 234, 310, 313

2nd Division, 218, 221, 232, 239, 251, 256

4th Division, 243, 244, 246–47

8th Division, 223

16th Division, 245, 246

27th Division, 166

28th Division, 176

30th Division, 189

4th Cavalry Division, 243, 315–17

6th Cavalry Division, 234

15th Cavalry Division, 234

Dennis E. Showalter, Ph.D., has taught history at Colorado College since 1969 and is a former president of the Society for Military History. He also served as distinguished visiting professor at both the United States Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy. The first edition of Tannenberg won the prestigious Paul Birdsall Prize for best new book of 1992 from the American Historical Association. His other books include Railroads and Rifles and The Wars of Frederick the Great. He lives in Colorado Springs.

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