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The Balkans Bulgaria entered the war on the German side, tempted by the German offer of regaining territory it had lost to Serbia during the Second Balkan War (1913). A planned encirclement of the Serbian army did not succeed, but the Serb army was driven back across Albania where eventually it was evacuated by the British and French. To assist the Serbs a Franco-British force was sent to Salonika in Northern Greece. This started on 5th October, but the Bulgarians were able to pin this force down by occupying the mountains above Salonika. Furthermore, there was a change of government in Greece, the pro-entente government was replaced by a neutral one. Nonetheless, the French insisted on keeping the force in Salonika, where it remained for most of the war inactive. The Serbian army was also transferred to it

Contents of Military History of the First World War 1 The Central Powers and the Entente 2 The run-up to the war: The July Crisis, 1914 3 Military Planning in Advance of the War 4 Serbia and the Eastern Front, 1914 5 The Battle for the Marne 6 The Race to the Sea and the First Battle of Ypres 7 First Battle of Ypres 8 The Pacific 9 Africa 10 The Eastern Front during 1915 11 Italy enters the war 12 The Balkans 13 The Western Front 14 Gallipoli 15 The Western Front, 1916 16 Verdun 17 The Battle of the Somme 18 The Trentino Offensive 19 The Brusilov Offensive 20 Romania 21 The Russian Front in 1917 22 Mesopotamia 23 The Nivelle Offensive 24 The Third Battle of Ypres (The Battle of Passendaele) 25 Cambrai 26 Caporetto 27 German offensive in Russia, 1918 28 Ludendorff's offensive in the West 29 Allied counter-offensive

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