What we defend Serbia with ?
WE DEFEND SERBIA WITH OUR SERBIAN GUTS.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html(something like in the middle of this very long page)
"Stevan Sinđelić (1770 - 19.05.1809) was one of the commanders of the First Serbian Uprising (1804-1813). His name became synonymous with courage among Serbs.
On the day of Holy Trinity, May 19, 1809 (during First Serbian uprising), the Ottoman Turks marched out of Niš and headed towards Sinđelić's trenches with 3,000 strong cavalry and four cannons.
First the prayer to G-d (for forgiveness and guidance) and then, the positioning of the cannons, followed by a slow approach to the trenches on Cegar Hill. With the first volley over, the Turks charged the trenches.When Sinđelić saw the trenches were filled with Turkish bodies, which still didn't stop the enemy from charging in over the dead and fighting his men with rifle butts, he opened the trench gate and told his soldiers they were free to attempt avoiding certain death by leaving the field of battle if they so wished.
His famous words were: Save yourselves brothers, who wants and who can! Who stays will die!He himself took a position in the middle of the trench where the gunpowder was stored. Taking his handgun from his belt and reloading it, he then took a look around too see what was happening. There was panic in the trenches. Men, both Serbs and Turks, were choking and dropping dead or wounded all around him.
When the Turks swarmed the trench from all sides and headed for him Sinđelić fired his handgun into the gunpowder container, triggering a huge explosion that shook the surrounding fields and hills. Thick smoke engulfed the trench and billowed skyward.
The Serbs that were still in the trench with Sinđelić and the attacking Turks were all blown into the air and killed. This explosion ended the life of a man, later known as the "falcon of Cegar", the commander of Resava, Stevan Sinđelić.Total death toll was ~3000 Serbian and ~10000 Turkish soldiers.The only survivor was a unit's priest, who left trenches on Sindjelic's command to go and inform other army leaders in liberated Serbia about the battle
After the retreat of the Serbian rebel army, the Turkish commander of Niš, Hurshid Pasha, ordered that the heads of the killed Serbians were to be mounted on a tower to serve as a warning to any other would-be revolutionaries. In all, 952 skulls were included, with the skull of Sindjelić placed at the top. The scalps from the skulls were stuffed with cotton and sent to Constantinople (modern Istanbul) as proof for Sultan Mahmud II."
"My eyes and my heart greeted the remains of those brave men whose cut-off heads made the cornerstone of the independence of their homeland. May the Serbs keep this monument! It will always teach their children the value of the independence of a people, showing them the real price their fathers had to pay for it."
"Qu'ils laissent subsister ce monument! Il apprendra a leurs enfants ce que vaut l'independance d'un peuple, en leur montrant à quel prix leurs peres l'ont payée."
Alphonse de Lamartine, "Journey to the East", 1833 