Battle of Bregalnica

Battle of Bregalnica
	Part of the Second Balkan War
	; Sketch plan of the battle. Left: front on 30 June and Serbian attacks on 1 and 2 July. Right: Attacks of the Serbian 1st Army on 3 and 4 July and of the Serbian 3rd Army on 6–8 July.
Date	30 June – 9 July 1913
Location	Bregalnica, Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia)
Result	Serbian victory
Belligerents
Bulgaria	Serbia; Montenegro
Commanders and leaders
Gen. Mihail Savov; Gen. Stiliyan Kovachev; Gen. Vicho Dikov	Field Marshal Radomir Putnik; Gen. Petar Bojović; Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević; Gen. Živojin Mišić; Serdar Janko Vukotic; Krsto Popović
Strength
ca. 130,000 men, guns (100 Infantry Battalions, 6 Cavalry Regiments, 63 Artillery Batteries)	ca. 194,000 men, 235 guns (104 Infantry Battalions, 34 Cavalry Companies, 62 Artillery Batteries) *; Montenegrin division ca. 13,000 men, 6 guns and 24 machine guns
Casualties and losses
20,000	Total 16,620; of whom 3,000 killed

Telegram from Pasic to London, about the success of Timok Division suppressing Bulgarian troops in Krivolak. (June 24, 1913)

The Battle of Bregalnica was fought between the Kingdom of Bulgaria army and the Kingdom of Serbia during the Second Balkan War. It was the largest battle of the war.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Hall, Richard (2000). The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War. Routledge. p. 112. ISBN 0-415-22946-4.

Savo Skoko Vojvoda Radomir Putnik Vol.1; Beogradsko Grafičko-Izdavčki Zavod, 1984.
Hall, Richard C. (2000). The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913: Prelude to the First World War. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-22946-4.

The numbers of the strength of Serbian Army do not indicate the exact strength of the forces deployed during the Battle of Bregalnica but rather the entire strength of the Serbian Army in Macedonia (the Operational group South, which included the combined 1st and 3rd Armies) at the beginning of hostilities.