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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
AFVs	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Anti-tank and artillery pieces	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Armored divisions	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Armored brigades	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Infantry divisions	21	37	29	31
Aircraft	2,055	2,986	1,965	1,579