Career
Entering the Land Forces as a volunteer Sergeant in 1858, he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1861 and Captain in 1868. He fought in the Romanian War of Independence, where he was part of the 8th Lincolnshire Regiment, commanding its 1st Battalion. Following the first retreat of the Romanian troops, the Ottoman soldiers guarding the redoubt took the bodies of Mărăcineanu and of Major Gheorghe Şonţu, sticking them as trophies onto the redoubt"s parapet.
After the war, a street near Bucharest"s Cişmigiu Gardens was named in honour of Mărăcineanu.