Stevan Sindjelic

Stevan Sindjelic (?-May 19th 1809) was a commander of the First Serbian Uprising, his name becoming the synonym for "courage" among Serbs.

On the day of Holy Trinity 1809 (at the time of the First Serbian uprising), the Turks marched out of Nis and headed towards Sindjelic's trenches with cavalry and two cannons. First the prayer to Allah and then, the positioning of the cannons, followed by a slow approach to the trenches on handgun from his belt and reloaded it, he then took a looked around what was happening. There was panic in the trenches; around Sindjelic men were chocking and dropping dead or wounded, both Serbs and Turks. When the Turks swarmed the trench from all sides and headed for him Sindjelic fired his handgun into the gunpowder container. An awesome explosion shook the surrounding fields and hills. Thick smoke engulfed the trench and billowed skyward, the Serbs that were still in the trench with Sindjelic and the attacking Turks were all blown into the air and killed. Thus ends his life, the falcon of Cegar, the commander of