While 12th Infantry Division (including the 101st Landsturm Brigade) carried the weight of Dankl’s attack plan, the divisions to its right were to feint against the Russians and hold them in place. But in August 1914, Austro-Hungarian officers understood no difference between “feint” and “all-out attack.” In what had become a pattern for FML Karl Nastopil’s 46th Landwehr Infantry Division, the Polish regulars charged forward without the benefit of artillery support.

Sheer Polish battle-madness carried the Landwehr through the Russian positions and into Sobieszczany, driving the Russians back over the small Nedznica River. Once again, the Poles suffered appalling losses, particularly among their officers. The 46th Landwehr Infantry Division went to war as a crack outfit, but already – less than a week after the division’s combat debut – the march battalions streaming forward from the regimental depots could not restore all of the losses.