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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"Desultory fighting round places as far apart as Obrnovats and Vishegrad continued until August 12th, when the first penetration of Austrian troops into Serbia was signaled from Losnitsa. At that town and at Leshnitsa the Thirteenth Army Corps effected a crossing, while on the same day the Fourth Army Corps crossed the Save to the north of Shabatz, and other troops on the Drina. By the 14th, over a front of about one hundred miles, six great columns had crossed the rivers and were converging on Valyevo."
After declaring war on Serbia on July 28, Austria-Hungary bombarded Belgrade the next day and intermittently during the following two weeks. On August 12 she began an invasion of Serbia across the Save and Drina Rivers, 250,000 men under the command of General Potiorek, who, as governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina, had been host to Archduke Franz Ferdinand when he was assassinated. From a description of the Austro-Hungarian invasion and its defeat by the Serbs by the Woislav Petrovitch, Serbia's diplomatic representative in Britain.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. II, 1914, p. 5, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
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