Battle of Marasesti
The battles of Marasesti (Romania) was held 6 with the August 19th 1917.
Last important battle of the face of the East during the First World War, it opposes the Rumanian Armée assisted by Russian units less and less justified to the German armed ordered by the general August von Mackensen. The battle is the result of the German attempt boring the Rumanian face in the area ranging between the lower course of the river of Siret (Sereth) and the Carpates. The results awaited by Mackensen were the collapse of Rumanian resistance in Moldavie and the capitulation of the Romania from which the capital had been temporarily transferred fine 1916, after the fall of Bucharest, in the town of Iaşi (Jassy).
The battle was a failure for the Germans who made a success of only one advanced very limited without however managing to bore the face. The Rumanian general Eremia Grigorescu directed the resistance of Iere Armée Rumanian grouped in a compact face between two small affluents with Siret, the rivers of Putna and Susiţa. The reorganization of the Rumanian army by the French military mission (Berthelot general) during first half of the year 1917 contributed much at the conclusion of this battle, unfavourable to the Germans.
Rumanian losses: 27.000 killed, wounded and captive. Russian losses: 25.000 killed, wounded and captive. German losses: 65.000 killed, wounded and captive.
A monument set up in the inter-war period - Mausolé de Marasesti - points out the memory of this battle and shelters the skin of the general Eremia Grigorescu as well as the bones of 6000 soldiers and officers fallen here.
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