The Battle of Vulcan Pass took place on the Eastern Front of World War I. Vulcan Pass was captured by the Germans on 21 September during the retreat of the Romanians. The retreat occurred after the Romanian army was beaten near the city of Hermannstadt. However, on the following day, the Romanian units were still actively fighting against the advancing German troops.[2] On 22 September, two German battalions stormed the Vulcan Pass. In taking it, the Germans also captured 526 Romanian prisoners.[3]
| Battle of Vulcan Pass | |||||||||
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| Part of the First Battle of Petrozsény and World War I | |||||||||
 German soldiers during the Battle of Vulcan Pass | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Germany |
 Romania | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Friedrich Paulus |
Ioan Culcer Ioan Muică | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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1st Bavarian Jäger Regiment 2nd Battalion of the I.R. 187[1] |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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17 killed 83 wounded | 526 Romanian soldiers captured | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "The Soldier's Burden". www.kaiserscross.com. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ Leonard Wood, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl, P. F. Collier & sons, 1917, The story of the great war: with complete historical record of events to date, Volume 11, p. 3283 (note: the volumes in this series have a single continuous page count, starting with the first page of the first volume and ending with the last page of the last volume)
- ^ Funk and Wagnalls, 1916, Literary Digest, Volume 53, Part 2, p. 925