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Battle of Cansporonne
Part of the Horn Offensive of the Western Front of the Great War
Infantrymen of the LXII Soravian Army Corps advance into the town of Saint-Yves-sur-Mussy, around 4 km (2.5 mi) north-west of Cansporonne
Date April 7–19, 1934 Location Cansporonne, Gaullica (now Drawno, East Miersa) Result Soravian victory: Counteroffensive re-routed Complete capture and encirclement of the Gaullican IV Army Around 200,000 captured as POWs
Belligerents
Grand Alliance: Soravia	Entente: Gaullica
Commanders and leaders
Matvei Shaposhnikov Ismo Häkkinen Yakov Kuybyshev Yuri Chesnokov	Jean-Louis Mossé  Lucrèse Dubost  Hector Pelletier  Edmond Naudé †
Units involved
Soravian armies 3rd Army Group XXII Soravian Army Corps LXI Soravian Army Corps LXII Soravian Army Corps LXIII Soravian Army Corps IV Miersan Army Corps X Miersan Army Corps Transmonian Airborne Rifles III Air Corps Kamenets Artillery Group Klimovka Artillery Group 7th Army Group VII Soravian Army Corps XI Soravian Army Corps II Vedmedi Rifles III Vedmedi Rifles VII Kantemoshan Army Corps416,942 V Tank Corps VI Tank Corps Yudino Artillery Group	Gaullican armies IV Army III Army Group IV Army Group VI Army Group VII Army Group 4éme tirailleurs Bahiens
Strength
7–12 April: 266,816 infantry 7,055 artillery pieces 915 tanks 2,055 aircraft 12–19 April: 466,934 infantry 21,153 artillery pieces 2,410 tanks 2,986 aircraft	7–12 April: 334,192 infantry 13,830 artillery pieces 1,110 tanks 1,965 aircraft 12–19 April: 289,464 infantry 11,282 artillery pieces 818 tanks 1,579 aircraft
Casualties and losses
21,726 killed 70,182 wounded 550+ tanks destroyed	39,088 killed 77,155 wounded 300+ tanks destroyed ~200,000 POWs

The Battle of Cansporonne (Gaullican: Bataille de Cansporonne, Soravian: Битва при Канспоронні; Bytva pry Kansporonni, Miersan: Bitwa pod Kansporan/Drawno), also known in Soravia as Operation Purity (Soravian: Операція Чистота; Operatsiya Chystota) or Operation Bonfire (Gaullican: Opération feu de joie) in Gaullica was a large-scale military engagement between Soravia and Functionalist Gaullica between April 7 and April 21, 1934. It was the largest battle of the Horn Offensive by personnel count, and also resulted in the largest capture of prisoners-of-war in the Euclean theatre of the conflict, with around 200,000 being imprisoned after the battle.

Participating forces

Force comparisons by date

Force	Soravia		Gaullica
Month	April		April
Date	7th	12th	7th	12th
Men	266,816	466,934	334,192	289,464
Tanks	915	2,410	1,110	818
Anti-tank pieces	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Artillery pieces	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Armored divisions	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Infantry divisions	21	37	29	31
Aircraft	2,055	2,986	1,965	1,579

Army leaders

Soravia

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  Matvei Shaposhnikov
  Commander-General of the 3rd Army Group

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  Ismo Häkkinen
  Commander-General of the 7th Army Group

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  Yakov Kuybyshev
  Commander of the Yudino Artillery Group

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  Yuri Chesnokov
  Commander of the III Air Corps

Gaullica

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  Jean-Louis Mossé
  Commander of the III Army Group

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  Lucrèce Dubost
  Commander of the IV Army Group

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  Hector Pelletier
  Commander of the VI Army Group

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  Edmond Naudé
  Commander of the VII Army Group