After repulsing an Ottoman force at Ivanovac, the year before, the Serbian insurgents under Karađorđe took strong position, entrenched in sconces on the field of Mišar Hill, near Šabac west of Belgrade.

The plan consisted of Karađorđe and the infantry remaining in the fortification, while the Serbian cavalry led by Luka Lazarević and Miloš Obrenović would wait for the moment to attack.

At one point Serbian soldiers panicked and retreated to the sconce fortress, but Karađorđe took his sabre and ordered them to get back to their posts.

The fights at Mišar lasted several days with mutual losses, but the battle itself ended with the collapse of the Ottoman center and the exposure of the right and left columns.

The victory bolstered the morale of the lower class Christian population, within the Ottoman’s Eyelet of Bosnia, stoking their sense of identity and resistance.

The victory was immortalized by Serbian guslar Filip Višnjić, with the epic poem Boj na Mišaru, and the Russian painter Afanasy Ivanovich Sheloumov, with a monumental composition of oil on canvas with the same name.

Šafarik, Pop Luka Lazarević, Prota Mateja Nenadović, Lazar Mutap, Miloš Stojčević Pocerac, Cincar Janko Popović... are some of the names of this epic battle that Serbia won.

The Turks tried to escape to Bosnia, but they were met there by Stojan Čupić and Miloš Pocerac, and Cincar Janko Popović and Lazar Mutap who chased them across the Sava where few of the enemy survived.