Title: Peter I King of Serbia, 1915 Description: Peter I (AKA: King Peter the Liberator; June 29, 1844-August 16, 1921), King of Serbia, shown at left in autumn 1915 while watching his troops retreat from superior Austrian forces; Austria made three ineffective military drives into Serbia in 1914, but in the fall of the following year, three armies (Austrian, German and Bulgarian) marched on three fronts with more than 300,000 troops into Serbia, overwhelming 200,000 Serbian troops, killing, wounding or capturing half of them, the rest withdrawing in an epic retreat over the snow-covered mountains of neutral Albania, finally taking refuge on the Allied-controlled island of Corfu; the Serbian Army would return in 1918, bolstered with Allied armies, to retake Serbia; Category: World War I Keywords: First World War, The Great War, kings, retreats, royalty, Serbian troops, sovereigns, War to End All Wars, World War I, WWI. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2250 x 1884 (4.24 MPixels) (1.19) Print Size: 19.0 x 16.0 cm; 7.5 x 6.3 inches File Size: 12.16 MB (12,750,180 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000048075 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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