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Updated: May 10, 2025
During this one day the Germans claimed to have taken 8,000 prisoners, the Danube army capturing also thirty-five cannon and thirteen locomotives and a great amount of rolling stock. It was not the battle along the Argechu, however, which was the cause of the immediate danger to Bucharest. The blow which decided the fate of the Rumanian capital came from the north.
Whatever the actual facts, this offensive movement came too late to have any material results; Bucharest, at any rate, was doomed. On December 3, 1916, what appears to have been a desperate battle from the German reports took place along the river Argechu in the region before Bucharest.
The real danger lay in the German forces coming down from the passes south of Kronstadt. Already Campulung was taken and the Argechu crossed in the north. Then the invaders streamed down the Prahova Valley, which begins at the passes and runs down southeast behind Bucharest. The Rumanians now had the choice of evacuating their capital or having it surrounded and besieged.
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