Battle of Galați
| Battle of Galați | ||||||||
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| Part of the Romanian Campaign of World War I and the Russian Civil War | ||||||||
Monument commemorating the Battle of Galați, photo from 1921 | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
| Romania | Soviet Russia | Scattered formations of the former Russian army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Constantin Prezan Constantin Niculescu-Rizea | Yevgeni Iskritsky | Dmitry Shcherbachev | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| 500 troops | 12,000 troops | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown, but Russian troops got disarmed | |||||||
The Battle of Galați was a military engagement between the formerly allied Romanian 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.