“Noi ne ducem; e rândul vostru să trăiţi. Cu buruienile astea uscate, noi am crescut şi ne-am făcut datoria; acu veniţi voi. Să fiţi sănătoşi!…Uite pământul ăsta: m-a făcut să asud; am muncit toată viaţa pentru el, de cele mai multe ori fără să mă răsplătească; m-am supărat şi l-am blestemat, — dar nu m-aş duce de pe el pentru nimic în lume. Nădăjduiesc că tot aşa o să faci şi tu şi că n-o să mai pleci. Aci suntem născuţi şi eu şi maică-ta şi părinţii noştri şi părinţii părinţilor noştri…”

24.03.2013

Battle Of Marasesti 6-19th of August 1917



From the 10th until the 13th day,

15th-18th of August.

The fights on Muncelu Plateau .

Insured to the right wing by pushing the Front to Baltaret-Cosmesti and the arm of SiretvRiverv, Mackensen has continued in the following days the attacks at the left wing against the Russian Front.In this direction was Mackensen hoping to find the decisive success which till no it escaped him,wit all the long,tough and bloody battle. Four days ,from 15 to 18th of August, the action stagnated on Morgen’s Front, which had ahead of him only Romanian troops and needed” to put in order his units”;she evolved on the contrary with a lot of strength on the Weninger’s Front, from Iresti to Panciu.

In the day of 15th of August, Weninger attacks with his left the VIII-th Russian Corps,at the union point of Divisions 15th and 103rd,South –East of Muncelu,after preparations of Artillery and axfixiant gas.The 411th Russian Regiment gives up, after a weak resistance, and the Russian Front is broken; the neighboring Regiment,410th is also the 403 mters height point. The two Russian Divisions are thrown to the right side and to the left side ;the soldiers disbanded are running away and are brought back, hard, to the new positions, one kilometer North, by the Cazacs/Cossacks of the 4th Cavalry Regiment of Zamurskaia ,with lance hits and nagaica. The German Alpiners have occupied Stranoare ,Muncelul and are advancing towards Mangalaicu. The German Front has taken here the form of a great angle, which enters deep into the line of the Russian Front and is menacing by the flank the front of the II-nd Romanian Army and Varnita. Village.Under the influence of this favorable situation, the neighboring Gallwitz Group attacks with the 217th Division the Russian troops of the 103rd Division, rejects them thus occupying the line Serbesti-Voloscani,at the edge of Iresti....


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