Serbian Front 1915
 Serbia 1915 - reserve
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Feb. 9 - Kitchener to send 29th Division to Salonika.
Feb. 22 - British adviser Admiral Troubridge gave British guns for Serb river defense of Belgrade.
Mar. 30 - Allied Danube Blockade sunk Austrian steamer Belgrade.
Apr. 1 - Brit. 3rd Serbian Relief Fund surgical unit arrived in Serbia to reat 48,000 typhus victims.
Apr. 26 - 3 Austrian corps trannsferred to italian front; German divisions replace Austrian on Serbian front.
May 23 - Italy entered war against Austria.
Aug. 1 - Falkenhayn planned offensive to occupy Serbia.
Aug. 5 - French appoint Gen. Sarrail head of Army of the Orient.
Sept. 6 - Germany, Austria, Bulgaria signed military convention for joint attack on Serbia.
Oct. 6 - Invasion of Serbia began, led by Mackensen's 11th Army.
Oct. 14 - French 57th Div. landed at Salonika.
Oct. 21 - French battle Bulgarian 2nd Army in south Serbia.
Nov. 5 - Bulgarian 1st Army took Nis, opened railroad to Turkey.
Nov. 18 - Sarrail returned to Salonika, would not fight 400,000 Central Power troops in Serbia.
Nov. 23 - 200,000 Serbs began epic retreat to the Adriatic.
Dec. 6 - Albanian leader Essad Pasha agreed to help Allies evacuate Serbs, but Arnauten tribesmen take revenge on Serbs for 1912 Balkan War.
Dec. 12 - Allied ships, most from italy, evacuated Serbs to Corfu.
Links:
- USMA maps:
- 31. Northeastern Europe, 1 May - 30 September 1915
- 32. The Balkans , August - December 1914
- 33. The Balkans, 7 October 1915
- 39. The Balkans, 1914
- 24. Central Europe, 1914
- 04. Eastern Front, 1914
- Great War In a Different Light
Sources:
- Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. New York, 2005
- Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War: To Arms. Vol 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.