Map of the Danube River from the guidebook The Danube from Passau to the Black Sea, by The First Imperial Royal Priv. Danube Shipping Co., 1913 edition. It was translated from the German by May O'Callaghan and published in Vienna. Inside the back cover is a booklet General Remarks-Fares; Time-tables, 1914, that includes information about 'ships, cabins, combined tickets, luggage and attendance in general on the Company's steamers, etc.'
Passenger Steamer Lines of 'Erste k.k. priv. Donau-Dampfschiffarhts-Gesellschaft.' Vienna. (Austria).First Imperial and Royal privileged Danube Steamship Company
"Consequently, at 10:00 P.M. on 30 September [1916], the 10th [Romanian] Division, which initiated the assault, began marching toward the embarkation points. By 3:00 A.M. its first units began crossing in small boats. They wore summer uniforms and carried only limited ammunition and two days' food in their packs. By 11:30 A.M. the remainder of the 10th ID had been shuttled over, and by 3:00 P.M. most of a second division (the 21st Division) had arrived. The pontoon bridge, the construction of which began at 5:00 A.M., had reached only midstream by noon. This meant that except for the very lightest 53mm guns, all artillery had to await the completion of the bridge that evening. Meeting almost no enemy resistance, the Romanian infantry fanned out, enlarging the bridgehead four to six kilometers in all directions. The nearby Bulgarian villages of Babovo and Rahovo were occupied by 6:00 P.M."
Romania entered the war on August 27, 1916 by crossing the Transylvanian Alps and southern Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania, in Austria-Hungary. Within a month, a German and Austro-Hungarian army was driving the invaders back into Romania, while, across the small country to the east, a combined German, Bulgarian, and Turkish army under German General August von Mackensen had driven the Romanians back in Dobrudja, a region between the Danube River and the Black Sea. With the Flămânda Maneuver, the Romanians crossed the Danube River into Bulgaria to strike Mackensen's army from the rear as Romanian and Russian troops attacked in Dobrudja. Initially panicked, the Central Power forces quickly recovered. By the end of October 1st, German aircraft had bombed the bridge and bad weather and rising water threatened it. By the 2nd, Austro-Hungarian patrol boats released mines to float downriver into the bridge.
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey, page 84, copyright © 2011 by the University Press of Kansas, publisher: University Press of Kansas, publication date: 2011
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