Milutin Jovanović (general)

Milutin Jovanović (Serbian: Милутин Јовановић; 30 September 1828 – 22 October 1888) was a Serbian army general.He poured the first modern Serbian cannon in Cannon in Kragujevac.
==Biography==
Milutin Jovanović was born on 30 September 1828 in Jagodina. After finishing primary school and high school, he went to a store, where he was a trade assistant. He joined the army in 1847 and two years later enrolled at the Military Academy (Serbia). He graduated from the Military Academy in 1855, when he received the rank of artillery lieutenant. Until November 1857 he was a sergeant in the Field artillery. He was sent as a state cadet to train in Belgium where he learned to cast cannons and cannonballs. He studied abroad from November 1857 to the end of April 1858.
==The first cannon==
After returning from Belgium from 1858 to July 1861, he was a sub-manager of the Topolivnica in Kragujevac. He poured the first Serbian cannon in Topolivnica, and it was the first cannon in the Balkans. Until July 1863 he was the commander of mountain artillery and manager of the arsenal. After that, until August 1865, he was the commander of first the Negotin and then the Belgrade People's Battery. For four months during 1866, he stayed in Montenegro, where he trained Montenegrin artillerymen to handle a mountain battery, which he At the request of Prince Nikola, the Principality of Serbia, through its envoy Petar Vukotić, sent it as a gift. Under the leadership of Captain Jovanović, 51 artillerymen, 109 infantrymen and 10 trumpeters were trained in Montenegro, and ammunition was made in a small workshop in Cetinje. On the eve of his departure from Montenegro, in mid-June, Jovanović submitted a report on his work and an opinion on further training of the army to Prince Nikola, proposing that the artillerymen trained in Cetinje be sent to the tribes, as non-commissioned officers and teachers. He also proposed the senior staff of the battery in Cetinje and inspectors who would take care of the training.
After returning from Montenegro until 1867, he was the commander of the 3rd Polish Battery and the acting commander of the artillery. From December 1867 to January 1870 he was the inspector of artillery. At that time in 1868, he was sent as an envoy of the Serbian The army observed the maneuvers of the Austro-Hungarian army in Brik. For a short time during 1869, he was the deputy commander of the artillery in Belgrade. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1870. For a time he served in Ćuprija in engineering units, and then in 1871, he returned to the position of artillery inspector. After that, until 1874, he was the commander of the Aleksinac Brigade. Until 1876, he was the commander of the South Moravian Division.23) He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1875.
==Serbian-Turkish wars==
In 1877 during the First Serbian-Turkish War, Jovanović was the commander of the South Moravian Division. At the beginning of the war, he commanded the main or Supovac column of 15 battalions. The task was to first occupy the bridgehead at Mramora, cut the road Niš-Leskovac and tried to take Niš. On 2 July 1876, his column easily crossed the border near Supovac, dispersing the Turkish border guards from their watchtower. By noon, the Serbian artillery managed to silence the Turkish artillery, and then the Serbian infantry launched an attack. They reached near Mramora, but the arrival of Turkish reinforcements shook the Serbian army, which retreated to the border. For a time he was commander of the Ćuprija fortified camps.
==Suppression of the Topol revolt==
In the Second Serbian-Turkish War, Jovanović was the chief of the artillery of the Supreme Command. He took part in the suppression of the Topolska buna (Topol revolt), which broke out on 7 December 1877 during the mobilization. Jovan Belimarković was given the authority to quell the rebellion with the army, and Milutin Jovanović was appointed commander on 9 December 1877, with broad powers to exercise the power of the supreme commander, to confirm, annul and execute the judgments of military courts in the rebel area. After quelling the rebellion, Jovanović ruthlessly punished the rebels. At the request of Milan Obrenović IV, he demolished the Karađorđe Tower and other important monuments in Topola with cannons and gunpowder.
==General==
Until October 1878, he was the commander of the standing army division, and he was in the same position from 1881 to 1883. From 1881 he was a member of the committee for military organization and teaching. In 1881 he was an observer of the military maneuvers of the Austro-Hungarian army in Miskolc. He was promoted to the rank of general in 1883. He was appointed commander of the Danube Divisional Area in 1883. In the same year, he was elected president of the Belgrade Rifle Company. He participated in the Serbo-Bulgarian war in 1885, commanding the Danube division at the First Battle of Caribrod. After that war, he retired in January 1886. 
General Milutin Jovanović died in Belgrade on 22 October 1888.
Category:1828 births
Category:1888 deaths
Category:Serbian generals
Category:People from Jagodina