A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 48
Drina that forms the border between Serbia and Bosnia and the
battle got mad up to the 17. Again the Serbs were victorious, nevertheless
they didn't make impression on Serajevo and the held back Austrians a
sure position on the oriental bank of the Drina; and for the Serbia of six weeks
you/he/she had gone away to comparative peace. But at the end of October the entry
of Turkey in the war and the relief it allowed him the troops of Austria
more distant north from the activity in increase of Germany in Poland and
Galicia encouraged another effort; and under General Potiorek the
Austrians started a more ambitious country. The Serb frontier
constituted an acute salient which was indefensible against a superior
forces, and the Austrians exploited this advantage extending them
forehead of attack from Semendria on the correct round Danube to Ushitza
over the Drina. Their object was to wind the Serbs and to grab,
in first place, Valievo, their advanced base, in according to place Kraguievatz the
Serb arsenal, and, finally, Nish to that the Serb Court and
Government had withdrawn.
The only opportunity that the Serbs were successful it was to shorten their line from
withdrawing to the crest of mountain of semicircular that lies south and
southeast of Valievo, and even this way their perspectives were dark. Two
wars had already voided the virility of Serbia and its ammunition and her
numbers were sadly inferior to the Austrians. But individually her
troops were far the best fighters that their opponents and the Crown
Prince, Marshal Putnik, and General Míshitch, the commander of the 1
Manages Serb, completely old Potiorek of big long in tactics the strategy, and
knowledge of the ground. In 10 November the Austrians were in
Valievo, and Potiorek was tilted for remaining on his/her crown of laurel. For a fatal
two weeks he didn't do anything, and also sipped three of his/her body to
serves in the Carpathians against the Russian that were doing there
Serbia their service you/they had done in Prussia Est to the Allies on the
Marne. In that interval Greek ammunition and others were brought in