Prelude
Between 1915 and 1918 the Macedonian front passed through the summit of the Baba Mountain overlooking the city of Bitola. Against part of the Bulgarian Sixth Vidin Infantry Division stood two French and one Serbian division. In 1916 the Entente managed to seize Bitola but it was impossible for them to use the city because it was within the range of the Bulgarian artillery on Baba Mountain. In the beginning of 1917 the French High command in Solun decided to make an operation to take the Baba Mountain from the Bulgarians, to seize the valley between Bitola and Prilep and to continue the blow towards the Vardar valley.
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