He was, as his secretary Morice testifies, " a man that delighted not in revenging."
Maximilian of Austria also took up his cause, as a happy means of revenging himself on Henry VII.
In the preceding spring Serbia had driven back the Austrian armies out of her territory; but now a fresh Austrian invasion was imminent, and Bulgaria was plainly bent on revenging herself for her disasters of 1913 by preparing to attack Serbia in the flank.