Map of Romania and the Allied and Central Power campaign plans for 1917. 'Romanian Territories under Foreign Rule' include Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, northwest of the Carpathian Mountains, and Bessarabia, Russia, to the east between the Prut and Nistru Rivers, regions with large ethnic Romanian populations. From Romania in World War I, a Synopsis of Military History by Colonel Dr. Vasile Alexandrescu.
The Romanian Army in the 1917 CampaignRomanian territories under foreign ruleThe Romanian territory invaded by troops of the Central Powers in the 1916 campaignThe Romanian-Russian campaign plan for the summer of 1917The German-Austro-Hungarian campaign plan for the summer of 1917Romanian troopsRussian troopsTroops of the Central Powers
"The offensive of the German Ninth Army in the Focşani-Mărăşeşti-Adjud direction was triggered off on the morning of August 6, 1917, after an intense artillery preparation making extensive use of poisonous gas. The sector of the strike devolved on the I Army Corps, with the 12th, 76th and 89th Infantry Divisions employed in the first line, over a 15 km-wide front, and other two large units in the second line. The two Russian divisions in the area of contact (the 13th and the 34th) could not withold enemy pressures and started retreating northwards."
The Battle of Mărăşeşti, German commander August von Mackensen's response to Romanian victory in the Battle of Mărăşti, began on August 6, 1917. The Mărăşti offensive began on July 24, 1917 with an attack by the recovered and newly re-armed Romanian army in Moldavia, the only part of the country not occupied by Central Power forces. The Romanians suspended the battle on August 1. To avenge his loss, Mackensen hastened plans to destroy the Romanian army and seize Moldavia.
Romania in World War I, a Synopsis of Military History by Vasile Alexandrescu, page 52, copyright © 1985, publisher: Military Publishing House, publication date: 1985
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