Zivojin Misic Quotes

By Hulk

Zivojin Misic, a celebrated Serbian military leader, was born on July 7, 1855 in the Valjevo village of Struganik below Maljen and Suvobor. During his forty-year long military career, he participated in as many as six wars, gradually advancing from the rank of sergeant to the highest military rank of duke. Thanks to his military successes, primarily as the commander of the 1st Serbian Army in the Battle of Kolubara and the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command during the breakthrough of the Thessaloniki Front in 1918, his name found its deserved place in military history textbooks around the world. Despite his legendary fame, which spread far beyond the borders of Serbia, he was remembered by the people as a very modest military leader who never forgot his peasant origins.Zivojin Misic began his schooling in Ribnica, and finished elementary school and the first two grades of high school in Kragujevac, after which he moved to the First Belgrade High School, where he finished third, fourth and fifth grade. In 1874, he was admitted to the 11th grade of the Artillery School, the forerunner of the Military Academy. Duke Zivojin Misic gained his first war experiences as an artillery cadet during the two liberation wars against Turkey in 1876 and 1877-1878. Even then, and especially after the unsuccessful Serbian-Bulgarian war in 1885, he worked tirelessly to raise the readiness, reputation and equipment of the Serbian army, knowing that without a modernly organized and equipped army, the struggle for the liberation of Serbia could not end successfully.In addition to the Artillery School, he graduated from the Austro-Hungarian shooting school at Lajta in Brook, as well as two years of preparation for the general staff profession in the Serbian army. During his career, he took over the duties of battalion, regiment, brigade and division commander, he was the assistant chief of the General Staff, and for a full six years he taught strategy at the Military Academy High School. In military textbooks, along with Radomir Putnik, Stepo Stepanovic and Petar Bojovic, he received merits as the creator of the Serbian military doctrine, making plans for organization, mobilization, concentration of the Serbian army before the Balkan wars, as well as a strategy for defending the country from Austro-Hungarian aggression.Zivojin Misic was the commander of the 1st Serbian Army, which won the greatest Serbian victory in the First World War during the Battle of Kolubara. The moment in which Zivojin Misic took command of the exhausted and demoralized soldiers is actually the moment in which everyone expects the final collapse of the Serbian military effort. Retreating against the decisions of the Serbian military command and on his own responsibility, Misic gave his soldiers time to recover and consolidate. On December 3, 1914, Misic led his army in a counter-offensive, during which the Serbian army captured 43,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers and seized over 140 cannons. Three days after the Battle of Kolubara, Zivojin Misic received the rank of duke. The First Serbian Army under the command of Duke Zivojin Misic played a key role in protecting the Serbian army during its retreat across Albania to the Adriatic Sea, taking on the greatest burden of Austro-Hungarian attacks.Zivojin Misic, as the Chief of Staff of the Serbian Supreme Command, participated in the triumph of the Serbian army in the First World War. With his courage, determination and courage, Duke Zivojin Misic, in cooperation with the Serbian and allied commanders, carried out the breakthrough of the Thessaloniki front. Leaving the allied troops as much as two hundred kilometers behind, the Serbian army forced the Bulgarian army to capitulate, and then, beating the 11th German army to its feet and capturing Nis, broke the dominance of the Central Powers in the Balkans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R7C2TTQ
• ISBN13: 9798586557278
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"