Battle of Deligrad

Battle of Deligrad
Part of the First Serbian uprising
Date3 September 1806
Location
Deligrad
Ottoman Empire (now Serbia)
Result Serbian victory[1]
Belligerents
 Revolutionary Serbia

 Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders
Units involved
Revolutionary Serbia First Serbian Army Ottoman Empire Nizam-i Djedid
Strength
37,000 55,000
Casualties and losses
3,000 killed[2] 30,000 killed[2]

The Battle of Deligrad was fought between Serbian revolutionaries and an army of the Ottoman Empire, and took place in 3 September 1806[3][4][5] during the First Serbian Uprising. A 55,000-strong Ottoman army commanded by Albanian Pasha of Scutari Ibrahim Pasha was defeated with heavy casualties and the loss of nine guns by Karađorđe Petrović's 30,000 Serbian rebels at Deligrad in Serbia.[6]

  1. ^ Esdaile, Charles, Napoleon's Wars, (Viking Adult, 2008), 252.
  2. ^ a b Protić 1892.
  3. ^ Ljušić, Radoš (2000). Vožd Karađorđe (in Serbian). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Belgrade: Udruženje za srpsku povesnicu. p. 161.
  4. ^ Vukićević, Milenko (1912). Karađorđe. Istorija ustanka 1804—1807 [Karađorđe. History of the Uprising 1804–1807] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Državna štamparija Kraljevine Srbije. p. 410.
  5. ^ Novaković, Stojan (1904). Vaskrs države srpske. Političko-istorijska studija o Prvom srpskom ustanku 1804—1813 [Resurrection of the Serbian state. A Political-Historical Study of the First Serbian Uprising 1804–1813] (PDF) (in Serbian) (2nd ed.). Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga. p. 50.
  6. ^ Showalter, D.; Authors, M. (2013). Revolutionary Wars 1775–c.1815. Encyclopedia of Warfare. Amber Books Ltd. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-78274-123-7. Retrieved 2021-06-21.