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| Battle for Drenovo | |||||||||
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| Part of the Macedonian Struggle | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Serbian Chetnik Organization |  Bulgarian committees | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Local fighters from Bogomila and Teovo | Dačo from Bistrica  | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 40 Chetniks | 2 Committee companies | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1 wounded | Entire army killed | ||||||||
Site of the battle | |||||||||
The Battle of Drenovo took place in Spasovdan on 9 June 1907 in the village of Drenovo, near Veles.
For the attack on Drenovo, in addition to the company led by Vasilije Trbić, Jovan Babunski hired village Chetniks from Bogomila and Tetovo, which totaled 40 people. In order to pass through the Arnaut villages unhindered, the Chetniks changed into Arnaut clothes, which they got from Kičevo. Also, they decided to attack Drenovo during the day, since the Bulgarians did not post guards at that time. In the afternoon of June 9, they entered the village. The people of Drenovo, thinking that they had Arnauts in front of them, did not take out their weapons. When the Serbian troops found out in which house the committees were hiding, they surrounded the house and attacked it from the other nearby buildings. Because of this, a mutual shooting ensued, together with the siege of many houses. Some Chetniks managed to climb onto the roof and set the house on fire. The Bulgarians moved to another house under the protection of smoke and the fight continued. Since the second house was also set on fire and the flaming ceiling beams began to fall on them, the committees decided to storm their way through after a four-hour fight. In this attempt, everyone was killed, except for two who surrendered and who were later killed as accomplices in the murders at the Kapinovo mill and on the Bogomil road. The Serbs had only one wounded in this battle - Trbić's Chetnik Donče from Oraov Dol. From this fight arose the Chetnik anthem "Get ready, get ready", which was also sung in the Second World War, with a slightly modified text.
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