Talk:Battle of Dobro Pole

message: Aha - another idiot article. And pray, where do the casualty figures come from? Certainly not from the sources mentioned. I hope this was written by a first grade student - because thinking about Dobro Pole like a single battle between 10,000 british and 4,000 Bulgarians is as simplistic as you could get. This is wikipedia - and anyone incompetent in history can write as they please. But if anyone cares - what actually happened in this battle was a break in the Bulgarian fortification system by British troops, which were able to advance north and into Monastir. There was no capture of a Bulgarian army. The Bulgarians were outmanned and outgunned and retreated - there were subsequent battles, which the advance of the French and British was halted. But the breach of the fortifications, meant that the Bulgarian position had become untenable, and the surrender came shortly after. To portray this a resounding Anglo-French victory is nonsensical - if you had real casualty figures you would know why. Common sense also helps - an army charging a machine-gun fortified position rarely had "minimal casualties" in WW1.
If anyone has sources that support otherwise - please share. I don't mind reading alternative history.
- Mladen
:Well, feel free to improve it. Carom 04:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: "Bulgaria was able to defeat Britain and Greece at the Battle of Doiran, but Serbo-French forces did not halt their advance, and the two forces finally met at Dobro Pole."
am I the only one who is left from this phrase with the impression that Battle of Doiran was before the Battle of Dobro pole? because the articles in WP state that the former was fought from 18 September to 19 September while the latter is fought at September 15th.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.9.14 (talk) 13:25, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time machine??? 

message: " Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes took Vardarska Macedonia". It did not took, reclaimed. Vardar Mcedonia was part of Serbia when WWI stared therefor it can only be reclaimed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.86.228.53 (talk) 09:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vardar Macedonia 

message: There was some snobbery about the fact that I used a free website as a source, with the result that my edit was reversed. 
I have not seen other sources that actually contextualise the position of the Sokol and the Veternik. Are there not any other sources out there that can provide this? I can understand that some sources are seen as more reliable than others, but I don't see anything controversial about the website. The website is there to promote a form of battlefield tourism, rather than presenting a politically charged agenda, that I could tell.
:'The main attack was planned on the locality called Dobro Pole (Dobro Polje, Добро Поле - literate translation - Good Meadow). Dobro Pole is a locality between the peaks Sokol (Сокол - Falcon) and Veternik (Ветерник – Windy place) on Nidze Mountain'
Is there not a similar geographical narrative that is available from other "preferred" sources? Keith H99 (talk) 11:47, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918" by Richard C. Hall, page 129. Avidius (talk) 16:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for having taken the time to have read my statement, and to have provided a source (Hall) that provides a geographical narrative as to the dispositions of these geographical features. Keith H99 (talk) 16:43, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic context