ЂОРЂЕ МИХАИЛОВИЋ ИЛИ КАРИЈЕРА ЈЕДНОГ ЗАБОРАВЉЕНОГ СРПСКОГ ГЕНЕРАЛА
ĐORĐE MIHAILOVIĆ OR THE CARRIER OF FORGOTTEN SERBIAN GENERAL

Summary/Abstract: In 1870 the Serbian army finally introduced the rank of a general. Even though there were 53 holders of this rank by1918, the names of some of them have been completely forgotten. General Djordje Mihailović is just such an example. Althoughhe belonged to 11th class of the Artillery School, which gave two field marshals (vojvoda)out of 23 graduates, his biography has not been well enough known. The same is the case with his military career, which, according to all known, was almost completely flawless. Historians recorded his participation within the inner circle of conspiratorsin the May coupasthe only fact worth mentioning. The case was nearly the samewith the duty of the commander of the Šumadija Division in the First Balkan War. The reason for the resignation of general Djordje Mihailović, which followed immediately after the end of the war with Turkey, has remained unexplained event from his life. As a reserve officer, Mihailović took an indirect part in the First World Waruntil the beginning of the Thessaloniki offensive in 1918.

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