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"Brothers, Soldiers, men of Greece and Serbia, men of Constantinople, of Athens, of Dubrovnik, of Smyrna and Pontus! The Will of God has brought us here - The Austirans have pushed us all the way to the Danube, Novi Sad has fallen, and at our backs are Belgrade, our homes, our fathers and sons! His Majesty Himself stands on the opposite bank, our Monarch has entrusted us with victory! As we journey into this battle before us, many of us will not return. But know this, brothers: Know that today the Sun itself is blinded by our glory! So here we shall stand, here we shall fight. Know that in God's hands, we are strong! Now, soldiers of Heaven's Divine Will, under the Flag of Blood show the enemy not a shred of mercy! Hold this bank or die upon it!"

It was with this speech that Cossack Colonel Alexander Draskovic rallied the remaining men of the 105th Anatolian, 207th Serbian, and 392nd Greek Brigades at the Battle of the Danube. In winter of 1938 AD, just a year after Alexandros IV assumed the throne from his father, Georgios VII, the Second Austro-Hellenic War began by a surprise attack by the Austrians, which overwhelmed the initial Vojvodine Defenders at the northern border. Over a few days, the Austrians surged through the region of Vojvodina in one of the greatest lighting-war assaults in Europe to date. Under cover of a snowstorm, on the evening of the 6th of February, the Austrians attacked the Stražar Line, just north of the Danube River. For nearly two days, the fortress held. However, as their defenses weakened under threat of annihilation, the garrison was pushed out of the forts north of Belgrade, all the way to the very northern banks of the Danube.

As the Belgrade Fort garrison arrived at the northern bank of the Danube along with the remains of three other brigades from Serbia, Greece, and Anatolia, so too did a local group of about 300 Serbian Cossacks under the command of Colonel Alexander Draskovic, who had just driven in from Obrenovac down the Sava River with news that Novi Sad had fallen to the Austrians. Upon arriving, he took command of the remaining men, telling them that Monarch Alexandros IV had arrived in Belgrade, and that they were the last hope for the City of the North. With this, he pledged his life to the Northern Bank of the Danube, claiming that he would not leave until the enemy was vanquished. The men rallied around him and his 300 Cossacks as he raised the Cossack Blood Flag; but this one was different. Stitched into the banner were the words, 'Нема милости за уљеза,' 'No mercy to the invader.'

With that, the men under the command of Draskovic counter-attacked into the jaws of the raging storm against the Austrian aggressors. Outnumbered nearly four to one, the battle was fierce as the men of His Majesty charged against the Hapsburg tanks with almost no armor of their own. But in the blinding storm, the defenders of the Danube held fast and defeated the Austrians before sunrise, almost wiping out the Austrian 24th Combined Division. The victory went to the Hellenic Royal Empire, but at a price. Colonel Alexander Draskovic honored his pledge to the Northern Bank - During the attack he was wounded in the shoulder and fell upon the field of battle. On the morning of the 9th of February when Monarch Alexandros arrived on the Northern Bank to take command of the forces there, he encountered the mourning men over their fallen leader. With them, His Majesty himself helped bear the body of Alexander Draskovic with his fellow soldiers as they laid him in a temporary grave.

However, Alexander Draskovic did not die in vein - Nearly a week later, Hellenic Imperial forces struck the Austrians back across the Northern Border and the counter-attacked into Hungarian Austria. Three months after the Battle of the Northern Bank, as the Imperial Forces neared the gates of Sopron, Austria accepted peace.

Today, Draskovic is a national hero, espeically to the people of Belgrade. He has his own monument on the Avenue of Heroes in the Imperial Capital of Athens. Exhumed from his temporary grave, Draskovic was interred at the Cemetery of the Northern Defenders, on the very same bank he fell upon. His flag flies, eternally, over his sarcophagus.

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"Brothers, Soldiers, men of Greece and Serbia, men of Constantinople, of Athens, of Dubrovnik, of Smyrna and Pontus! The Will of God has brought us here - The Austirans have pushed us all the way to the Danube, Novi Sad has fallen, and at our backs are Belgrade, our homes, our fathers and sons! His Majesty Himself stands on the opposite bank, our Monarch has entrusted us with victory! As we journey into this battle before us, many of us will not return. But know this, brothers: Know that today the Sun itself is blinded by our glory! So here we shall stand, here we shall fight. Know that in God's hands, we are strong! Now, soldiers of Heaven's Divine Will, under the Flag of Blood show the enemy not a shred of mercy! Hold this bank or die upon it!"

It was with this speech that Cossack Colonel Alexander Draskovic rallied the remaining men of the 105th Anatolian, 207th Serbian, and 392nd Greek Brigades at the Battle of the Danube. In winter of 1938 AD, just a year after Alexandros IV assumed the throne from his father, Georgios VII, the Second Austro-Hellenic War began by a surprise attack by the Austrians, which overwhelmed the initial Vojvodine Defenders at the northern border. Over a few days, the Austrians surged through the region of Vojvodina in one of the greatest lighting-war assaults in Europe to date. Under cover of a snowstorm, on the evening of the 6th of February, the Austrians attacked the Stražar Line, just north of the Danube River. For nearly two days, the fortress held. However, as their defenses weakened under threat of annihilation, the garrison was pushed out of the forts north of Belgrade, all the way to the very northern banks of the Danube.

As the Belgrade Fort garrison arrived at the northern bank of the Danube along with the remains of three other brigades from Serbia, Greece, and Anatolia, so too did a local group of about 300 Serbian Cossacks under the command of Colonel Alexander Draskovic, who had just driven in from Obrenovac down the Sava River with news that Novi Sad had fallen to the Austrians. Upon arriving, he took command of the remaining men, telling them that Monarch Alexandros IV had arrived in Belgrade, and that they were the last hope for the City of the North. With this, he pledged his life to the Northern Bank of the Danube, claiming that he would not leave until the enemy was vanquished. The men rallied around him and his 300 Cossacks as he raised the Cossack Blood Flag; but this one was different. Stitched into the banner were the words, 'Нема милости за уљеза,' 'No mercy to the invader.'

With that, the men under the command of Draskovic counter-attacked into the jaws of the raging storm against the Austrian aggressors. Outnumbered nearly four to one, the battle was fierce as the men of His Majesty charged against the Hapsburg tanks with almost no armor of their own. But in the blinding storm, the defenders of the Danube held fast and defeated the Austrians before sunrise, almost wiping out the Austrian 24th Combined Division. The victory went to the Hellenic Royal Empire, but at a price. Colonel Alexander Draskovic honored his pledge to the Northern Bank - During the attack he was wounded in the shoulder and fell upon the field of battle. On the morning of the 9th of February when Monarch Alexandros arrived on the Northern Bank to take command of the forces there, he encountered the mourning men over their fallen leader. With them, His Majesty himself helped bear the body of Alexander Draskovic with his fellow soldiers as they laid him in a temporary grave.

However, Alexander Draskovic did not die in vein - Nearly a week later, Hellenic Imperial forces struck the Austrians back across the Northern Border and the counter-attacked into Hungarian Austria. Three months after the Battle of the Northern Bank, as the Imperial Forces neared the gates of Sopron, Austria accepted peace.

Today, Draskovic is a national hero, espeically to the people of Belgrade. He has his own monument on the Avenue of Heroes in the Imperial Capital of Athens. Exhumed from his temporary grave, Draskovic was interred at the Cemetery of the Northern Defenders, on the very same bank he fell upon. His flag flies, eternally, over his sarcophagus.