on time. During this period of hesitation the danger to the right flank of the First Army grew and it was finally ordered to retreat. The defeated British took advantage of this and began pursuing. In the next several days the situation deteriorated and several thousand Bulgarian soldiers revolted and headed towards Sofia and on 27 September they proclaimed the overthrow of the monarchy. During this time the Bulgarian government was under pressure from all sides and finally decided to begin negotiations so on 29 September the Salonica Armistice was concluded. The First Army was demobilized on 15 October 1918. Commanders Second World War World War II for the Axis The Kingdom of Bulgaria, under Tsar Boris III, aligned itself with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and as a result regained Southern Dobruja in the Treaty of Craiova of September 1940, and occupied Western Thrace, and much of Macedonia after the Germans invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941. In the Bulgarian Army, there were four or five field armies, including the First Army, and some 30 divisions. On 22 June 1941, the First Army included the 1st Division; the 7th Division (:bg:Седма_пехотна_рилска_дивизия); two border guard regiments, a machine-gun battalion, other artillery units, engineers, and other supporting units. In the spring of 1942, Hitler requested Boris' help controlling occupied Serbia. The Tsar allowed the Germans to use his First Army, and so the First Army began its occupation duty in Yugoslavia, where the partisan movement was already active. World War II for the Allies In early September 1944, the rapidly advancing Red Army reached the northern border of Bulgaria. The Bulgarians continued fighting the guerrillas in Thrace and Macedonia, but also turned their guns on the Germans. By the end of the month the First Army, together with the Bulgarian Second and Fourth Armies, was in full-scale combat against the German Army along the Bulgarian-Yugoslav border, with Yugoslav guerrillas on their left flank and a Soviet force on their right. At this time the First Army consisted of three 10,000-men divisions. By December 1944, the First Army numbered 99,662 men. The First Army took part in the Bulgarian Army's advance northwards into the Balkan Peninsula with logistical support and under command of the Red Army. The First Army, along with the rest of the Bulgarian forces, advanced into Hungary and Austria in the spring of 1945, despite heavy casualties and bad