Second Battle of the Jiu Valley

Second Battle of the Jiu Valley
	Part of the Romanian Debacle of World War I
Date	7–17 November 1916
Location	Jiu Valley, Romania
Result	German victory
Belligerents
Romania	German Empire; Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Paraschiv Vasilescu	Viktor Kühne
Units involved
1st Infantry Division	LIV Army Corps
Strength
18 battalions	40 infantry battalions; 2 cavalry divisions
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown; ; Erwin Rommel's Company (according to Rommel himself):; 3 dead (including 1 officer); 18 wounded; 1 heavy machine-gun destroyed

The Second Battle of the Jiu Valley was a military engagement between German and Romanian forces during the Romanian Campaign of World War I. It lasted between 7 and 17 November 1916 and resulted in a German victory.

This battle was a thoroughly unequal contest in which the Germans outnumbered the Romanians by more than two to one. Thus, from the outset of the battle, the result was certain: a complete and decisive German victory.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Sir John Alexander Hammerton, Fleetway House, 1934, A Popular History of the Great War, Volume 3: The Allies at Bay: 1916, pp. 437–438
^ Erwin Rommel (2006) Infantry attacks. Greenhill Books. pp. 87 and 92–94. ISBN 1853677078

[john-1] Sir John Alexander Hammerton, Fleetway House, 1934, A Popular History of the Great War, Volume 3: The Allies at Bay: 1916, pp. 437–438

[2] Erwin Rommel (2006) Infantry attacks. Greenhill Books. pp. 87 and 92–94. ISBN 1853677078

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