24 The Great War complete as any of the famous " decisive battles of the world." Throughout the Turkish and Bulgar- ian wars their armies suffered no reverse. These 300,000 Serbs, battle trained and nerved by the proud record of recent victory, were now to challenge at least 1,000,000 Austrian and Hungarian troops. But neither the Austrian nor the Hun- garian had known battle. Both Austrian and Hun- garian armies included many thousands of Slavs, whose allegiance was at the very least doubtful. Left alone, Servia was as certain to be over- whelmed as was Sardinia, when Novara seemed to end all hope of Italian unity. But the capacity for prolonged resistance in her own mountains Servia certainly possessed, and each day of resistance must infallibly stir more deeply the sympathy of the " great Slav brother " beyond the Carpathians and the Vistula, whose battalions were already gather- ing on the Galician frontier.