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The Palace of the National Military Circle- The symbolic building of the Romanian army, transformed into a prison by the Germans
The National Military Circle is one of the oldest Romanian military institutions, established on December 15, 1876. At the end of the 19th century, at a time when the capital of Romania was modernizing at an accelerated pace, the idea of building a headquarters for...
The Romanian patriotic mission to the United States (1917). The attempt to organize a Romanian Legion in America
The entry of the United States of America into the First World War on the side of the Entente on April 6, 1917 gave the Romanian authorities the opportunity to try to recruit volunteers from the Romanians that were living there, in order to fight against the Central...
The establishment of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in the United States: “An act of unification with the country, before unification”
Prior to the end of the First World War, Hungarian diplomacy in the United States carried out intense propaganda aimed at influencing American public opinion and political circles in favour of the Budapest government’s view of Transylvania. In order to counter this...
The remobilization of the Romanian army in the autumn of 1918
Even though Romania was “temporarily” knocked out of the war by the Treaty of Bucharest, which was signed on May 7, 1919, King Ferdinand and his entourage closely followed the evolution of the fighting on the Western and Macedonian fronts. Romanian generals prepared...