Battle of Galați
{'<entity_0>': 'Romania during World War I', '<entity_1>': 'Battle of Galați', '<entity_2>': '22 January 1918', '<entity_3>': 'Romania', '<entity_4>': 'Galați', '<entity_5>': 'battle'}
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The <entity_1> was a military engagement between the formerly allied <entity_3> and Russian troops at the end of World War I, as the former sought to prevent the latter from retreating from the armistice line along with their equipment. After initial advances the <entity_0> quickly turned disastrous for <entity_3> as the Central Powers occupied two-thirds of the country, including the capital Bucharest, within months and Russian troops were dispatched to the new front line in order to prop up the <entity_3> government and prevent an invasion of Russia from the south. <entity_4>, the last port on the <entity_3> Danube River, was a vital lifeline for supplying the rump <entity_3> territory and Russian Bessarabia Governorate and it remained on the Entente side of the front lines. On 12 <entity_2> at Pechea, northwest of <entity_4>, a delegation of the Russian 13th Division came to the 4th <entity_3> Division headquarters to announce that the next day, Russian troops would leave the front and cross the Prut River to the Moldavian Republic. On 18 <entity_2> the 9th Division of General Eugen Iskritsky's Siberian Corps started moving towards <entity_4> where the 10th Division was already encamped. <entity_3> Navy Commander Constantin Niculescu-Rizea, the <entity_4> sector commander, received an order to bar the road from the west from the Russian columns and to defend the city. The <entity_1> was the only time in its history that <entity_3> used air, land, and marine forces together in a single <entity_5>. An arched monument was dedicated to the heroes of <entity_4>, but it was torn down after the Communists took control of <entity_3> after World War II.
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