Mihailo Mihaljević
Mihailo Mihaljević (1748-1794) was an Austrian high-ranking officer who went to liberate Serbia a few years before the Serbian Revolution took place. [1]
Captain of Serbian Free Corps[2], Mihaljevich is also remembered for liberating a considerable part of Serbia from the Turkish yoke in 1790 under the overall command of Field Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon|Gideon Laudon[3][4]. People were liberated and the gates of monasteries and churches opened to worship without fear, though it didn't last long before the Sublime Porte came to a truce that reverted everything back to the Ottomans[5].
Biography
Mihailo Mihaljević finished the cadet school and then served in the Petrovaradin Grenz Infantry|Grenz Infantry Regiment for several years. Before the Austro-Turkish War (1788-1791), he became the commander of the Serbian Free Corps in Srem|Syrmia, at the head of which he crossed the Sava in 1788 and cooperated with the Austrian Imperial and Royal|Imperial Royal forces in capturing Šabac. In the operations of the Austrian army in 1789, he secured an attack on Belgrade with Free Corps member Stanko Arambašić, and then took part in the capture of Paraćin, Jagodina, Ćuprija, Kraljevo|Karanovac, Kruševac, and Aleksinac. In 1792, he formed the Serbian and Slavonian Free Corps with which he participated in the French Revolutionary Wars. He died on the battlefield there on 26 April 1794.
References
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Serbs_in_European_Civilization/O3MtAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mihajlo+Mihaljevi%C4%87&pg=PA52&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Vojna_enciklopedija/mgPlAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Mihailo+Mihaljevi%C4%87&dq=Mihailo+Mihaljevi%C4%87&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB/7uPVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=mihailo+mihaljevic&dq=mihailo+mihaljevic&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/L_%C3%A9glise_Lazarica_et_la_place_forte_de/qI1NAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Mihailo+Mihaljevic&dq=Mihailo+Mihaljevic&printsec=frontcover
- ↑ https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Serbs_in_European_Civilization/O3MtAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mihajlo+Mihaljevi%C4%87&pg=PA52&printsec=frontcover
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