Aside from
Tannenberg and to a much lesser extent the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, attempts at encirclement failed.
The battle of
Tannenberg was the culmination of the Great War 1409-1411.
He ends with 1410 because the Battle of
Tannenberg in that year marks the end of the Jochid Ulus (which he calls "the Golden Horde") as the dominant power in Eastern Europe.
SANDOWN: 6.15 Land Ahoy, 6.45 Cashel Mead, 7.20 Crime Scene, 7.55 Mashaahed, 8.25
Tannenberg 8.55 Acrobatic
Tannenberg 1410; disaster for the teutonic knights.
Splendid service: the restoration of David
Tannenberg's Home Moravian Church organ.
Although separated by thousands of miles and fought on land and sea, the battles of
Tannenberg and Falkland Islands signalled that electronic warfare had made its debut on the battlefield.
Translated from the German by Imogen von
Tannenberg.
And that reflects its history, because in 1410, at the battle of
Tannenberg, aka Grunwald, the Lithuanians (together with their blood brothers the Poles, whose existence they're strangely reluctant ever to recognise) fought off the Teutonic Knights while the other two cities let them in and so became members of the Hanseatic League, the great global confederation of its day, which stretched all the way from Tallinn to London.
(27) After Jagiello's Lithuanian followers converted to Catholicism, the Jagiello Dynasty was able to conquer the Teutonic Order in 1410 at the battle of Grunwald and
Tannenberg. (28) This alliance became the "greatest dynastic concatenation of territory Europe had ever seen." (29)
Silburn, P., Cervenakova, L., Varghese, P.,
Tannenberg. A., Brown, P., & Boyle, R.