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Meanwhile, on 20 May the Ottoman army was reinforced with 20,000 soldiers from Rumelia. One Ottoman unit then tried to encircle the Serbian troops, 30 kilometres east of the town. Veljko Petrovic and his 2,000 soldiers then left their position, and moved to prevent the Ottoman attack from their rear approach. This manoeuvre further weakened revolutionary positions on the main front line.

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  • Battle of Čegar
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  • Meanwhile, on 20 May the Ottoman army was reinforced with 20,000 soldiers from Rumelia. One Ottoman unit then tried to encircle the Serbian troops, 30 kilometres east of the town. Veljko Petrovic and his 2,000 soldiers then left their position, and moved to prevent the Ottoman attack from their rear approach. This manoeuvre further weakened revolutionary positions on the main front line.
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  • 10000(xsd:integer)
  • ~20,000 - 30,000 troops
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Date
  • --04-15
Commander
  • Petar Dobrnjac
  • Veljko Petrović
  • Mustafa Pasha
  • Ahmet Pasha
  • Hursid Pasha
  • Ilija Barjaktarević
  • Ismail Bey
  • Karafeiza Pasha
  • Mahmut Pasha
  • Malic Pasha
  • Miloje Petrović
  • Paulj Matejić
  • Shashim Pasha
  • Stevan Sinđelić†
Caption
  • Monument to commemorate on the Battle of Čegar Hill
Casualties
  • ~1,000 - 3,000 killed
  • ~1,000 - 3,000 killed and wounded
Result
  • Ottoman victory
combatant
  • Serbian revolutionaries
Place
  • Čegar, Serbia
Conflict
  • Battle of Čegar
abstract
  • Meanwhile, on 20 May the Ottoman army was reinforced with 20,000 soldiers from Rumelia. One Ottoman unit then tried to encircle the Serbian troops, 30 kilometres east of the town. Veljko Petrovic and his 2,000 soldiers then left their position, and moved to prevent the Ottoman attack from their rear approach. This manoeuvre further weakened revolutionary positions on the main front line. The Ottoman troops attacked on the trench of Petar Dobrnjac on 30 May. The following day, on May 31, 1809, the most prominent trench at Čegar Hill, under the command of Stevan Sinđelić, was under attack. The battle lasted for the whole day. Stevan and his Brigade became separated from the remainder of the Serb guerrilla positions and he and his men resisted fiercely. With hundreds of Ottoman soldiers pouring into the trench, Stevan saw that his Brigade had little hope of staving off the Ottoman offensive. Hand-to-hand combat ensued in the trenches. Stevan decided to fire his flintlock pistol into a pile of gunpowder kegs. When the Ottomans swarmed the trench from all sides and headed for him, Sinđelić squeezed the trigger. As Milovan Kukić witnessed:
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