the commander of the 3rd battery of slight siege department of the Sofia fortress battalion. This artillery regiment was part of the Second Bulgarian Army, which besieged Edirne fortress whose defender was the "Feric" (Iron) Mehmed Shukri Pasha. The commanders of the Second Bulgarian Army– Lieutenant General Nikola Ivanov, Major General George Vazov, Colonel Nikola Zhekov, Major Ivan Valkov, and the commander of the First Bulgarian Army Lieutenant General Basil Koutinchev, considered that an open assault against Edirne would be the successful tactic. The chief commanders, General Mihail Savov, General Ivan Fichev, and General Radko Dimitriev, believed the town would be forced to surrender from the effects of the resulting famine. The Bulgarian and Serbian army, commanded by Major General Vladimir Vazov, carried out this tactic between 11 and 13 March 1913. Colonel Nedev was General Vazov's adjutant. The tacti was successful and on 13 March 1913 the Edirne fortress capitulated; Shukri Pasha was imprisoned. This was one of the happy and unique moment for Nikola Nedev and the Bulgarian soldiers during the Balkan war. There were many articles in the world press about the success of the Bulgarian army, and especially its military tactics. To Brussels and back After the war Nedev returned to Brussels to continue his education. When the Great War began, he returned to Bulgaria and was chosen to be the battery commander in the Shumen fortress battalion. In the spring of 1915 he was appointed as vice chairman of the new Military Historical Commission to the Staff of the Army. The First World War World War I began in 1914 between the Entente (France, Great Britain, Russian Empire, Serbia), and the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) and from 14 October 1915, Bulgaria. The war ended on 11 November 1918 with the capitulation of the Triple Alliance. On 23 September 1915 the mobilization in Bulgaria began. On 14 October 1915 Bulgaria declared war against Serbia. Bulgaria kept fighting with the French and English army in Macedonia throughout the entire war. The war between Bulgaria and the Romanian Kingdom and her ally the Russian Empire began on 1 September 1916. Bulgaria surrendered on 29 September 1918. The Neuilly Peace Treaty was signed on 27 November 1919, and ratified on 9 August 1920. 105,000 Bulgarian soldiers were killed, 150,000 were wounded, and 60,000 were disabled. Financial and physical losses amounted to 7 billion leva, economic losses and