Radoje Pantić (10 September 1880 - 19 September 1916) was a Serbian

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who fought for the Macedonian Serb

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and then served the national army in the

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and during the

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(part of the larger Balkans Campaign) in

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Biography

He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade. From 1911 he was the supervising officer of the mountainous headquarters in the Raška border region, next to the

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. He was a liaison officer in touch with other commanders who were operating behind enemy lines. His task was to transfer arms and men across the border to Turkish territory. In August 1912, he joined the Black Hand. He died at Siva Stena during the Battle of Kaymakchalan while commanding the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. The battle was fought between 12 and 30 September 1916, when the Serbian army managed to capture the peak of Prophet Ilija while pushing the Bulgarians towards the town of Mariovo. His courage was on display when he single-handedly charged a machinegun nest, receiving a bullet wound in the head. After receiving a second wound in the head, he fell unconscious, and as soon as he came to, Pantić urged his men to leave their cover and counterattack by yelling the famous words, "Go! We have to take the position even if we all have to die!" His men overpowered the enemy post and took the high ground. After Major Pantić's untimely death, war poet

Milosav Jelić Milosav Jelić (Skobalj (Smederevo), Kingdom of Serbia, 13 March 1883 – Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 6 July 1947) was a Serbian chetnik active in Old Serbia and North Macedonia, Macedonia. He was also a writer, war poet and one of the leading Belgrade j ...

immortalized him in a poem entitled, "Radoje Pantić", published in ''Srbianski venac.'' Today Radoje Pantić is considered one of the heroes of

in Serbia.

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