Battle of Čegar

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Čegar
partof=First Serbian uprising
date=May 31 1809
place=Čegar, Serbia
casus=
territory=
result=Serbian victory; both armies annihilated
combatant1=flagicon|Serbia|1882 Serbian revolutionaries
combatant2=flagicon|Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire
commander1=flagicon|Serbia|1882 Stevan Sinđelić
commander2=flagicon|Ottoman Empire Hurshid Pasha
strength1=~3,000 insurgents
strength2=~9,000 troops
casualties1=most of the contingent
casualties2=~6,000 troops

The Battle of Čegar was an engagement in the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the era of Napoleonic Wars.On May 31, 1809, the most prominent trench on Cegar Hill, under the command of Stevan Sindjelic, was attacked by the Ottoman troops. The battle lasted the whole day. As Milovan Kukic Who|date=June 2008witnessed,

the Turks attacked five times, and the Serbs managed to repulse them five times. Each time their losses were great. Some of the Turks attacked, and some of them went ahead, and thus when they attacked for the sixth time they filled the trenches with their dead so that the alive went over their dead bodies and they began to fight against the Serbs with their rifles, cutting and sticking in their enemies with their sabers and knives. The Serbian soldiers from other trenches cried out to help Stevan. But there was no help, either because they could not help without their cavalry, or because Miloje Petrovic did not allow it. Anyway, when Stevan Sindjelic saw that the Turks had took over the trench, he ran to the powder cave, took out his gun and fired the powder magazine. The explosion was so strong that all the surrounding was shaken, and the whole trench caught in a cloud of dense smoke. Stevan Sindjelic who up to that moment had reached everywhere, helping and encouraging everybody went into the air.

Fact|date=June 2008

Three thousand Serbian insurgents, and more than double of that on the Turkish side were killed on Čegar Hill.