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Mount Lovcen was the key defensive position of the Montenegrin army, who defended it as a citadel with roughly 2/3 of its forces. The Austrian-Hungarians, under Croatian general Stjepan Sarkotic, gathered large quantities of heavy artillery in Kotor, supported by ships artillery from the Austro-Hungarian Navy
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