The Montenegrin defeat in Tarabosh against Albanian forces in 1913

The Montenegrin defeat in Tarabosh against Albanian forces in 1913

Petrit Latifi

In 1913, King Nikola Petrovic ordered his Colonel Pllamenac to invade Tarabosh Mountain defended by Albanian forces of Shkodër. This however resulted in a devastating loss where Pllamenac was killed, and the Montenegrin divisions were wiped out completely. In the Brixner Chronik we read:

“The Storm on Stutari.

Vienna, April 7. The “Albanian Correspondence” reports from Antivari: The last three-day storm on Scutari by the allied Serbian and Montenegrin troops was carried out with terrible ferocity. The bloodiest battle was the one for Mount Tarabosch. King Nikita had given the order to take the positions at all costs.

The Chief of Staff of General Martinovich, Colonel Pllamenac, one of the most outstanding voivodes in Montenegro, led a detachment of 600 men who had volunteered against the well-fortified entrenchments of Mount Tabarosch. The detachment succeeded in destroying the first two barbed-wire fences, but it could go no further, as the enemy fire caused terrible damage in its ranks.

Colonel Pllamenac was among the first to be pierced by a bullet and fell dead from his horse In bitter hand-to-hand combat, Montenegrin troops managed to wrest several machine guns from the Albanians, but they had to surrender them again. Several Montenegrin battalions were almost completely wiped out.

Uncollected trains of wounded are arriving in Cetinje; countless corpses cover the sites of the last bitter fighting. New Allied troops are advancing toward Scutari. A new general assault on the besieged city is planned for tomorrow.”

Reference

https://digital.tessmann.it/tessmannDigital/digitisedJournalsArchive/page/journal/3/1/08.04.1913/4741/6/filterId-3%014741%0142373-query-albanische-filterIssueDate-%5B01.01.1912+TO+31.12.1940%5D-filterF_type-.html

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