Many treatises dealing with the national and political programmes and liberation plans of the Serbs and Croats did touch upon the question of the Military Frontier. Some of the brief periods and certain actions concerning the Frontier have already been studied and are generally well known. However, literature on the national liberation plans and actions in Krajina is in most cases strictly limited to specific periods or themes. It therefore does not permit an overall view of the entirety of the problem over the uninterrupted period from 1860 to 1873. During this period, Krajina played an important role having international dimensions in all critical moments. Its well-organized, well-trained, well-armed and sizable army was equally reckoned with by Croat and Serb national leaders, but also by Italian and Hungarian freedom fighters, as well as by the ruling circles in Vienna. The focus of this chapter will be on all the plans and actions undertaken during the mentioned period, from the Serbian as well as from the Croatian side, to show when they were coordinated and when they emerged independently of each other, when and why they were in opposition, and what their real objectives were. As the national liberation plans and actions of the Serbs and Croats as regards the Krajina are infrequently dealt with in existing literature and very seldom in conjunction, we believe that our approach will permit this problem to be more fully understood.

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