Attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha

Attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha
Date 3-6 September 1878 Location Gjakova, Ottoman Empire (modern Kosovo) Result Decisive League of Prizren victory
Belligerents
League of Prizren	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ali Pashë Gucia Ahmet Koronica Sulejman Vokshi Riza Bey Gjakova	Abdullah Pasha Dreni † Mehmed Ali Pasha † Shaqir Agë Curri (WIA)
Strength
4500 militants	<4500 militants
Casualties and losses
<280 killed	280 killed 300 wounded

The Attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha, known in Albanian historiography as the Action of Gjakova (Albanian: Aksioni i Gjakovës), was undertaken from 3–6 September 1878 by the Gjakova Committee of the League of Prizren in the estate of Abdullah Pasha Dreni near Gjakova. During the battle Mehmed Ali Pasha, the Ottoman marshal who was to overview the cession of the predominantly Albanian Plav and Gusinje region to the Principality of Montenegro, Abdullah Pasha Dreni, a notable official of the region and former member of the league, many Ottoman soldiers, and volunteers of the Gjakova Committee were killed.

The attack was the first military operation of the League of Prizren and marked the beginning of hostilities between the organization and the Ottoman Empire. On an international level, it was the first in a series of battles that changed the terms of the Congress of Berlin as regards the cessions to Montenegro and ended with the siege of Ulcinj, which determined the Montenegrin borders until the Balkan Wars.