Mounted backwards on an ass, a bellicose Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph is borne away from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia three times in 1914. At the end of the year, the Serbians had driven them out at great cost to the invaders. Signed MT.
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"One Austro-Hungarian soldier's diary reads: 'We could not even have imagined that the Serbs were on our heels, after all we have recently been victorious' (9 December 1914); 'Toppled field kitchens, wagons knocked over . . ., dead horses in ditches, all over the place discarded goods, clothes, harnesses, tins, barrels' (10 December)"
In his third and largest invasion of Serbia in 1914, Austro-Hungarian General Oskar Potiorek had driven his men mercilessly, as the Serbian army retreated before them. The invaders outran their supply lines and the Serbs fell back towards theirs. Potiorek had finally allowed his men some rest at the end of November, even as the Serbs received supplies, most critically artillery shells, from their French allies. Sure of victory, the Austro-Hungarians collapsed when the Serbs launched their counter-attack on December 3, and retreated in panic.
Serbia's Great War 1914-1918 by Andrej Mitrovic, page 72, copyright © Andrej Mitrovic, 2007, publisher: Purdue University Press, publication date: 2007
1914-12-10, December, 1914, Serbia,
