. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. acritical moment, when victory still hung in the bal-ance, the advancing Servian right wing was suddenlyattacked in the flank, and crushed in by the Turkishreserves under Bayazid, heir to the Ottoman resistance of the Servian centre under Lazar wasthen broken by the Turks, Lazar himself was takenprisoner, and the left Servian wing, mostly Bosnians,under the Bosnian leader Vlatko Voukovich, sweptfrom the field. While the battle raged at its heighta Servian nobleman—afterward a hero in the ballads—called Milosh Obilich found me
. The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny. acritical moment, when victory still hung in the bal-ance, the advancing Servian right wing was suddenlyattacked in the flank, and crushed in by the Turkishreserves under Bayazid, heir to the Ottoman resistance of the Servian centre under Lazar wasthen broken by the Turks, Lazar himself was takenprisoner, and the left Servian wing, mostly Bosnians,under the Bosnian leader Vlatko Voukovich, sweptfrom the field. While the battle raged at its heighta Servian nobleman—afterward a hero in the ballads—called Milosh Obilich found means of approachingthe Sultan, and slew him. After the battle, by theorders of the new young Sultan Bayazid, Tsar Lazarand the princes and nobles captured with him werebeheaded,^ The dismembered body of the Tsar was given back to the Servians,who gave it burial first in the Monastery of Gratchanitza, on Kossovoplain. From there the body was taken to Ravanitza, in Servia, and thence,when the exodus occurred in 1689, the dead Tsars body was carried by. PI o WARS BETWEEN SERB AND TURK 513 The battle of Kossovo, more than any other eventin Servian history, has graven itself upon the mindsof the people as an overwhelming national disaster,and throughout all Serb lands that anniversary,June 15th (old style), is kept as a memorial day formourning, not only for the nations overthrow, butfor the heroes who fell on that day, and for all Ser-vians who have since then died in the defence oftheir country in all other battles from that time tothe present. The Serbs did not at first realise the significanceof the Servian loss at Kossovo. The contemporarychroniclers refer to it as they do to any other after some two decades, when it became moreand more apparent that the Servian countries werebeing steadily and surely closed in upon by the Turks,in spite of their utmost resistance, did the full mean-ing of Kossovo dawn fully on the Servian mind. From that period begins to date th
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