Battle of Galați

Battle of Galați
	Part of the Romanian Campaign of World War I; and the Russian Civil War
	; Monument commemorating the Battle of Galați, photo from 1921
Date	12–22 January 1918
Location	Galați, Kingdom of Romania
Result	Romanian victory: Russian troops disarmed
Belligerents
Romania	Russian Republic
Commanders and leaders
Constantin Prezan; Constantin Niculescu-Rizea	Dmitry Shcherbachev ; Yevgeni Iskritsky
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.

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