Battle of Vulcan Pass explained

Conflict:	Battle of Vulcan Pass
Place:	Vulcan Pass, Austria-Hungary
Date:	21–22 September 1916
Territory:	Vulcan Pass is captured by German forces
Result:	German victory
Casualties2:	526 Romanian soldiers captured
Units1:	1st Bavarian Jäger Regiment 2nd Battalion of the I.R. 187^[1]
Units2:	1st Army 11th Division
Commander1:	Friedrich Paulus
Commander2:	Ioan Culcer
Casualties1:	17 killed 83 wounded
Partof:	the First Battle of Petrozsény and World War I

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]

References

1. Web site: The Soldier's Burden . 2023-12-21 . www.kaiserscross.com.
2. 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)
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=FC8wzcVOB7IC&q=petroseny Funk and Wagnalls, 1916, Literary Digest, Volume 53, Part 2, p. 925