Battle of Čegar

Battle of Čegar
	Part of First Serbian uprising
	; Sinđelić blowing up the powder kegs at the Čegar hill.
Date	31 May 1809
Location	Čegar, Sanjak of Niš, Ottoman Empire
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Revolutionary Serbia;	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Miloje Petrović; Petar Dobrnjac; Stevan Sinđelić †; Ilija Barjaktarović; Paulj Matejić; Veljko Petrović;	Hurshid Pasha; Ismail Bey; Mustafa Pasha;
Strength
~4,000	c. ~20,000
Casualties and losses
~3,000	~6,000–10,000

The Battle of Čegar (Serbian: Битка на Чегру/Bitka na Čegru), also known as the Battle of Kamenica (Бој на Каменици/Boj na Kamenici) took place during the First Serbian Uprising between the Serbian Revolutionaries and Ottoman forces near the Niš Fortress on 31 May 1809. Fought on the Čegar hill situated between the villages of Donji Matejevac and Kamenica near Niš in what is today southeastern Serbia, it ended in an Ottoman victory. Commander Stevan Sinđelić famously blew up the gunpowder magazine when the Ottomans overtook his trench, killing everyone in it. Skulls of dead Serb rebels were embedded into the Skull Tower.