After the Treaty of Sistova in 1791 that ended the last Austro-Turkish war (1787–91), they returned to Smederevo, but as a plague epidemic broke out soon after, his parents sent him to Skobalj with his uncles.
[9] After the collapse of the First Serbian Uprising he fled across the Danube to the Austrian side, and in 1814 he went to Khotyn in Bessarabia where Karađorđe also found sanctuary.
Another insurgent Pavle Cukić was dissatisfied with the peace agreement, which prince Miloš made a deal with Marashli Ali Pasha, so he opposed and exiled himself in the Manasija monastery.
Anta Protić helped Pavle Cukić a lot to persuade him to surrender to Prince Miloš, but to no avail.
Prince Miloš sent him to Ada Kaleh and Vidin during another uprising in 1821 to see what the Turks intended, and on the other hand to convey messages to the Turkish pashas that the Serbs want peace at all cost.
In November 1839, together with Prince Mihailo, they went from Wallachia to pay homage to the Sultan Abdulmejid I and returned from Constantinople only in March 1840.
[1] In 1853, Protić wrote Poveršnica od početka vremena vožda srpskog Karađorđa Petrovića ("The History from the Beginning of the Time of Serbian Grand Vožd Karađorđe Petrović").
This is what a reviewer wrote at the time: "Antonije Protić is more of a witness than a historical writer of the 19th century, who understands Karađorđe's epoch as a reflection of the former Serbian glory and state and noting Karađorđe's work - he builds a monument to the spirit that creates both a free people from an enslaved nation and a modern state from pashaluks .... indeed, a commemorative anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising.
"[7][16] Another two publications appeared posthumously entitled Kazivanja o srpskom ustanku 1804 (Tales of the 1804 Serbian Uprising) citing authors Janićije Đurić, Peter Jokić, Gaja Pantelić Vodeničarević, and Ante Protić,[17] [3] and Prićanja savremena o Prvom ustanku ("Contemporary narrations of the First Serbian insurrection") citing authors Janićije Đurić, Petar Jokić and Antonije Protić.