Milisav Čamdžija

Milisav Čamdžija, better known as Milisav the Boatman (Čamdžija), (1785 – 1815) was born in the village of Veliki Borak in the Belgrade nahija in 1785. He got the nickname because as a boatman he regularly transported people across the Sava River. He was among the earliest warriors during the First Serbian Uprising; he died two days after getting mortally wounded in the first battle of the Second Serbian Uprising led by Prince Miloš in 1815.

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