General Petar Terzić also spelled Peter Tersich von Cadesich[1](Serbian: Генерал Петар Терзић; 1739[2] – 22 December 1806)[3] was an Austrian nobleman, major general[3] who fought in both the Ottoman and Napoleonic wars.[4]
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Petar Terzić was born in 1739 in Kovilj in Slavonia, Habsburg monarchy, the part of the Military Frontier of the ever-present conflict between the forces of two empires from the early 1600s into the 1900s. Petar Terzić came from an old Serbian family with a military history dating back to time. In 1751 he became a cadet; in 1752, an ensign; and in 1753, lieutenant. As a graduate cadet of the Imperial-Royal Army in the Habsburg Monarchy, he rose through the military ranks, in 1765, he was promoted to captain; and by 1790, he was a colonel already.[2]
In the Serbian Banat there were the occasional occurrence of depriving officers and frontier guardsmen of their rank.[5] Terzić would always support the Serbian claim in military lawsuits when General Peter Duka came to adjudicate.[4] Duka tried to mitigate the charges against General Terzić in Pančevo who openly supported the Serbs.[6][7]
In 1804 when the First Serbian Uprising broke out Terzić's support went out to Karađorđe's Serbia[8] It was Terzić who recorded the exact date of the start of the Serbian Revolution, "7 March 1804"[9]
He was promoted to brigadier general in 1794[10] and on 21 August 1796 he received the rank of General Major[1] He retired in 1807 and a year later died in Pančevo.[3] He was 69.
References edit
- ^ a b "A Biographical Dictionary of all Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars". www.napoleon-series.org.
- ^ a b Zbornik za istoriju, jezik i književnost srpskog naroda: II odeljenje. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. 1935.
- ^ a b c Zbornik za istoriju, jezik i književnost srpskog naroda: II odeljenje. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. 1936.
- ^ a b Војводина и Србија у време првог устанка. Просвета. 1974.
- ^ Војводина и Србија у време првог устанка. Просвета. 1974.
- ^ Nastava povijesti. 1975.
- ^ "Google Translate".
- ^ Zemun i prvi ustanak : 1804-1813. Knjiz̆evni klub Zemun. 1975.
- ^ Годишњак града Београда. Izd. Muzej grada Beograda. 1974.
- ^ Зборник за историју. Матица српска, Одељење за друштвене науке. 1974.