The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . 64-167.—On July 6 (1Q18) the Allies, chieflyItalian and French, began an offensive in began with initial successes at the Skumbiriver, which was strongly fortified, but the retreat-ing Austrians received reinforcements and began acounter offensive. The Allies were obliged to re-treat and by August
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . 64-167.—On July 6 (1Q18) the Allies, chieflyItalian and French, began an offensive in began with initial successes at the Skumbiriver, which was strongly fortified, but the retreat-ing Austrians received reinforcements and began acounter offensive. The Allies were obliged to re-treat and by August 2ci were back to the linesfrom which they had started. On September 14,the French, British, Italian, Greek, Serbian, Czecho-Slovakian, and Jugo-Slavian armies, under theleadership of General Franchet dEsperey began anoffensive against Bulgaria. British and Greektroops attacked around Lake Doiran on the rightof the Macedonian front. (See also Greece: iqi?-1918.) French and Serbian troops struck in thecenter; the Italians on the left and in September 17 and 18 the Allied right beganto advance, as well as the center, which capturedforty-five villages and crossed the Pirez September 21 the Serbians east of Monastiradvanced nine miles. By September 22 the Serbians. BIC, BUOUGHT IT TO POSITION BV OXEN were of the mechanical means of resistance, theSerbians still remained in spirit and in disciplinean army. . They were fighting men to themanner born; they were burning with zeal, andwith wrath for their countrys wrongs. True,there were not more than 70,000 of them, but70,000 troops of that quality is a force of enor-mous power. They were fitted out now [in 1918]with every aid which science could place at theirdisposal, and it is literally exact to say thatthey could go anywhere and do anything. Nowmanifestly, little as it was apprehended at thetime, this was a factor which altered the out-look in the Balkan campaign to thi
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