Battle of Bratačića (Serbian Cyrillic: Битка код Братачића) took place on 1 August 1806 between Serbs and Turks. The battle was part of the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising ( sr, Prvi srpski ustanak, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; tr, Birinci Sırp Ayaklanması) was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1 ...

and ended with the victory of the Serbs.

Battle

At the beginning of the Turkish offensive against

Karađorđe's Serbia Revolutionary Serbia ( sr, Устаничка Србија / Ustanička Srbija), or Karađorđe's Serbia ( sr, Карађорђева Србија / Karađorđeva Srbija), refers to the state established by the Serbian revolutionaries in Ottoman S ...

in 1806, the Turkish army under the

Srebrenica Srebrenica ( sr-cyrl, Сребреница, ) is a town and municipality located in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby ...

commander Hadži-beg, with a strength of 7,000 men, crossed the

Drina The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whi ...

and from Sokograd, through the

Valjevo Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the administrative area of Valjevo had 90,312 inhabitants, 59,073 of whom were urban dwell ...

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

, attacked Palež (

Obrenovac Obrenovac ( sr-cyr, Обреновац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has a population of 71,419 inhabitants, while the urban area has 24,568 inhabitants. The largest Serbian th ...

) to merge with the main Bosniak army on the way to Belgrade. At the end of July, the Turks stopped in Bratačić on 1 August while the suppressed insurgents of the Valjevo nahiya remained in the village of Osecina.

Karađorđe Đorđe Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе Петровић, ), better known by the sobriquet Karađorđe ( sr-Cyrl, Карађорђе, lit=Black George, ; – ), was a Serbian revolutionary who led the struggle for his country's independ ...

intended to first defeat the Turks under Hadzi-beg, and then defeat the main Turkish army from Bosnia, which was gathering near

Šabac Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city ...

to attack Mišar. Because of that, Karađorđe kept 300-400 insurgents in

Kličevac Kličevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Кличевац) is a village in the municipality of Požarevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1,329 people. Population is mainly ethnically Serbian, and main occupations are ag ...

, and sent most of them to Osecina. The strength of the Serbian forces was 1,500 infantry with 2 cannons and 200 horsemen. The Turks attacked the Serbs on the same day, but seeing that they were supported by 60 cavalrymen under the command of

Matija Nenadović Matija Nenadović ( sr-cyrl, Матија Ненадовић, or Mateja Nenadović sr-cyr, Матеја Ненадовић; 26 February 1777 – 11 December 1854), also known as Prota Mateja, was a Serbian archpriest, writer, and politician who ...

, retreated after the first attack. The Turks thought that larger reinforcements were coming to the Serbs, so they withdrew to Bratačić. On the same day, the Serbs occupied the layout on the slopes around Bratačić and attacked the Turks, who retreated towards Rožanj at night and further towards the

. Thus, the direction from

was safe for Karađorđe for the upcoming

Battle of Mišar The Battle of Mišar ( sr, бој на Мишару) was fought between Serbian revolutionaries and an Ottoman army, it took place from 12 to 15 August 1806 during the First Serbian Uprising. After repulsing a Turkish force at Ivanovac the Serbia ...

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References

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