question: The March to the Drina was dedicated to a commander who had fought during a battle in the early stages of what war?
answer: First World War
context: Title: Battle of Balantang
  Passage: The Battle of Balantang, also known as the Second Battle of Jaro, was a battle fought in the early stages of the Philippine-American War.  It was an organized counterattack by Filipino forces on U.S. forces that was executed on March 10, 1899, retaking the town of Jaro on the island of Panay in the Philippines.  Philippine revolutionaries led by General Pascual Magbanua together with his sister Teresa Magbanua on an attack despite the weapon disadvantage this battle resulted in Philippine forces retaking Jaro from the American.  The number of Filipino casualties was not defined.  Because of her valor despite being a woman Teresa Magbanua was given a prominent place in the celebration, and lead her troops into the city while riding a white horse.
  Title: Battle of Drina
  Passage: The Battle of Drina (Serbian: Битка на Дрини, Bitka na Drini ) was fought between the Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies in September 1914, during World War I.  The Austro-Hungarians engaged in a significant offensive over the Drina river at the western Serbian border, resulting in numerous skirmishes (the "Battle of Mačkov Kamen" and the Battle of Gučevo being the heaviest ones).  In early October, the Serbian Army was forced to retreat, and later regrouped to fight in the subsequent Battle of Kolubara.
  Title: 49th Battalion (Australia)
  Passage: The 49th Battalion was an infantry unit of the Australian Army.  Raised as part of the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, the battalion fought along the Western Front between mid-1916 and late 1918, before being disbanded in early 1919.  In 1921, it was re-formed as a part-time unit based in the state of Queensland.  Throughout the 1930s, the battalion was merged a couple of times as a result of manpower shortages, but in early 1940, as Australia mobilised for the Second World War, the 49th was expanded and the following year deployed to New Guinea to undertake garrison duty.  Following Japan's entry into the war, the 49th was committed to the fighting in the early stages of the New Guinea campaign, taking part in the Battle of Sanananda in December 1942, where it took many casualties and suffered heavily from disease.  The battalion was withdrawn back to Australia in early 1943 and subsequently disbanded in July, with the majority of its personnel being redistributed to other units.  During the post-war period, the 49th Battalion was subsumed into the Royal Queensland Regiment, existing between 1966 and 1997, before being merged with the 25th Battalion to form the 25th/49th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment.
  Title: Battle of Raseiniai
  Passage: The Battle of Raseiniai (23–27 June 1941) was a large tank battle that took place in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.  The battle was fought between the elements of the German 4th Panzer Group (General Erich Hoepner) and the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps (Major General Alexey Kurkin) with the 12th Mechanised Corps (Major General Nikolai Shestapolov), in Lithuania, 75 km north-west of Kaunas.  The commander of the Soviet Northwestern Front, Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov, tried to contain and destroy the German troops that had crossed the Neman River (Nemunas) but was unable to prevent them from advancing.  The result of the battle was the destruction of most of the Soviet armoured forces of the Northwestern Front, which cleared the way for the Germans to attack towards the crossings of the Daugava River (Western Dvina).  The fighting around Raseiniai was one of the main battles of the initial phase of Operation Barbarossa, referred to in Soviet historiography as the Border Defensive Battles (22–27 June 1941) and formed part of the larger Soviet Baltic Strategic Defensive Operation.
  Title: March on the Drina
  Passage: The March to the Drina (, ] ) is a Serbian patriotic march which was composed by Stanislav Binički during World War I.  Binički dedicated it to his favourite commander in the Serbian Army, Pukovnik Milivoje Stojanovic Brka, who had fought during the Battle of Cer, but was killed in a subsequent battle in December.  The song experienced widespread popularity during and after the war and came to be seen by Serbs as a symbol of resistance to the Great Powers.  Following World War II, it was popular in Socialist Yugoslavia where a single release in 1964 achieved Gold Record status.  The march was played at the presentation ceremony for the Nobel Prize in Literature when Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić was named a Nobel laureate in 1961.
  Title: Conquest of the Air
  Passage: Conquest of the Air is a 1936 documentary film or docudrama on the history of aviation, until the early stages of World War II.  The film features historical footage, and dramatic re-creations, of the developments of commercial and military aviation; including the early stages of technology developments in design, propulsion, and air navigation aids.  The film was a London Films production, commissioned by the Air Ministry of the British Government.
  Title: Battle of Mollwitz
  Passage: The Battle of Mollwitz was fought by Prussia and Austria on 10 April 1741, during the First Silesian War (in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession).  It was the first battle of the new Prussian King Frederick II, in which both sides made numerous military blunders but Frederick the Great still managed to attain victory.  This battle cemented his authority over the newly conquered territory of Silesia and gave him valuable military experience.
  Title: Action at Néry
  Passage: The Action at Néry was a skirmish fought on 1 September 1914 between the British Army and the German Army, part of the Great Retreat from Mons during the early stages of the First World War.  A British cavalry brigade preparing to leave their overnight bivouac were attacked by a German cavalry division of about twice their strength shortly after dawn.  Both sides fought dismounted; the British artillery was mostly put out of action in the first few minutes, but a single gun of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery successfully kept up a steady fire for two and a half hours against a full battery of German artillery.  British reinforcements arrived at around 8 am, counter-attacking the German forces and forcing them to retreat; the German division was routed and did not return to combat for several days.  Three men of L Battery were awarded the Victoria Cross for their part in the battle, and the battery itself was later awarded the honour title of "Néry", the only British Army unit to have this as a battle honour.
  Title: Lloyd Fredendall
  Passage: Lieutenant General Lloyd Ralston Fredendall (December 28, 1883 – October 4, 1963) was a senior officer of the United States Army who fought during World War II.  He is best known for his command of the Central Task Force landings during Operation Torch, and his command of the II Corps during the early stages of the Tunisian Campaign.  In February 1943, while in command of the II Corps, his forces were defeated by German forces commanded by "Generalfeldmarschall" Erwin Rommel and "Generaloberst" Hans-Jürgen von Arnim in the Battle of Kasserine Pass.  After this setback, Fredendall was relieved of command of II Corps by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in North Africa, and replaced by Major General George S. Patton Jr. in March 1943.  In spite of his relief, Fredendall was promoted to lieutenant general in June 1943, assumed command of the Second Army and was greeted back home in the United States as a hero.
  Title: Battle of Cer
  Passage: The Battle of Cer was fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in August 1914 during the early stages of the Serbian Campaign of the First World War.  It took place around Cer Mountain and several surrounding villages, as well as the town of Šabac.
citations: Battle of Cer March on the Drina