The young Prince was educated in Geneva, where his father lived in exile, and in the school of the Corps des Pages in Petrograd. On his return from Petrograd, where he studied the arts of war, he had to Dut his knowledge to the test. From 1012 to 1918, he was almost continually Sighting.
During the first and second Balkan wars, he distinguished himself in bat-Mle as an ordinary soldier, and later became commander-in-chief of the Serbian forers, throughout the Great Tu 1915, he made the terrible retreat through Albania, refusing. to leave his/men and sharing their hardships, He thus kept up the morale of the troops and made pos ible a most remarkable feat of cour and. enduran Descended on hia father's side from race of warrior peasants, men of Action, impulsive and obstinate, his character was modified by something, of the astuteness of his maternal grandfather, King Nikola of Mont negro, the "Old Fox of the Balkans,
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