On land the other Allies had been not less active than Greece.
Montenegro had fired the first shot of the war. And the brave soldiers
of King Nicholas, the illustrious ruler of the one Balkan state which
the Turks had never conquered, were dealing deadly blows to their
secular enemy both in Novi Bazar and Albania.
As the Greeks had pressed into southern Macedonia, so the Servian
armies advanced through old Servia into northern and central Macedonia.
In their great victory over the Turkish forces at Kumanovo they avenged
the defeat of their ancestors at Kossovo five hundred years before.
Still marching southward they again defeated the enemy in two great
engagements, the one at Prilip and the other at Monastir. The latter
city had been the object of the Greek advance to Fiorina, but when the
prize fell to Servia, though the Greeks were disappointed, it made no
breach in the friendship {54} of the two Allies. Already no doubt they
were both gratified that the spheres of their military occupation were
conterminous and that no Turkish territory remained for Bulgaria to
occupy west of the Vardar River.