Prunaru Charge

Prunaru Charge
Part of the Romanian Campaign, World War I
Date November 28, 1916 Location Prunaru, Teleorman County, Romania Result Central Powers tactical victory Successful Romanian delaying action
Belligerents
Romania	German Empire Bulgaria
Commanders and leaders
Constantin Prezan Alexandru Referandru	August von Mackensen Robert Kosch
Strength
5,000	?
Casualties and losses
4,866	?

The Prunaru Charge (Romanian: Şarja de la Prunaru) was one of the most daring actions of the Romanian Armed Forces in World War I. The cavalry charge took place on November 28 [O.S. November 15] 1916 in Prunaru (today part of Bujoreni commune, Teleorman County), and was a component operation of the Battle of Bucharest.

After the Danube was breached by German, Bulgarian and Ottoman troops under the command of General August von Mackensen, and after German-Austro-Hungarian forces under the command of General Erich von Falkenhayn crossed the Carpathians, the Central Powers planned to trap and annihilate the Romanian forces between these two natural barriers and, by implication, remove Romania from the war. In the autumn of 1916, the most complex operation of the Romanian Fourth Army, under the command of General Constantin Prezan, took place in the Argeş–Neajlov sector, in what has come to be known as the Battle of Bucharest.

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