Janko Vukotić Military person
Janko Vukotić, (18 February 1866 – 4 February 1927) was a Serdar, general in the armies of the Principality and Kingdom of Montenegro in the Balkan Wars and World War I. He was born in an important Montenegrin family, and was related to Petar and Milena Vukotić.He studied at the Italian Military Academy. He commanded the Montenegrin Eastern Army during the First Balkan War and the Montenegrin division of the First Serbian army during the Second Balkan War, in which he distinguished himself at the Battle of Bregalnica. He also served as Montenegro's minister of defence in periods 1905-1907, 1911–1912 and 1913–1915 and as the Prime Minister of Montenegro 1913-1915. During the First World War, he was the Chief of Staff of the Montenegrin Army and the Commander of the Sandžak Army of Montenegrin forces. He is most famous for winning the Battle of Mojkovac, in which his daughter Vasilija Vukotić was a courier - the only woman participant in that battle. He was taken prisoner after the surrender of Montenegro in January 1916, and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Hungary.After the war, he served as a general in the Yugoslav army until his death in 1927.
