The following is the order of battle of the Hellenic Army during the First Balkan War of 1912–1913. Background Following the defeat in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, starting in 1904 and especially after the Goudi coup of 1909, serious efforts were undertaken to reorganize and modernize the Army. From 1911, this task was undertaken by a French military mission. The peacetime establishment of the Hellenic Army in 1912 comprised four infantry divisions (1st at Larissa, 2nd at Athens, 3rd at Missolonghi and 4th at Nafplion) newly reformed as triangular divisions, a cavalry brigade, six Evzones battalions, four field artillery and two mountain artillery regiments, one fortress artillery battalion and various support units, including two engineer regiments and an aircraft company. From 25 March 1912, Crown Prince Constantine assumed the position of Inspector-General of the Army, becoming its de facto commander-in-chief. Greece's territorial claims in Macedonia and Thrace clashed with those of Bulgaria, leading in the so-called 'Macedonian Struggle' between the two in 1904–1908, an armed guerrilla and propaganda conflict over influence over the local Christian populations. Nevertheless, from 1910 on, negotiations for the formation of a Greco-Bulgarian alliance, and later of a Balkan League encompassing all Christian Balkan states, began in earnest. Greece joined the League via a three-year, defensive military convention with Bulgaria on , which obliged Greece to assist Bulgaria with 120,000 men on land and its fleet at sea; Bulgaria undertook to raise 300,000 men. Nevertheless, due to the defeat of 1897, the Greek army on land was generally disregarded as a serious factor, even among the Balkan allies. Mobilization With the escalation of the crisis between the Balkan states and the Ottoman Empire, and the mobilization of Bulgarian forces on , Greece followed suit with a general mobilization at midnight of . The decree of mobilization was also carried out on Crete, which although formally an autonomous state was annexed into Greece. The existing units were brought up to full strength, and the 5th, 6th, and 7th infantry divisions were set up. The number of men from the Greek diaspora, or foreign philhellenes, who rushed to Greece to join up was such that the 6th and 7th divisions were able to have three-battalion regiments, instead of the two-battalion regiments originally envisaged. The Greek war plan had been updated as recently as 1912, and envisaged the division of the mobilized army into three parts: the Army