295:. About 15,000 Ottoman soldiers attacked in three directions. Although with little ammunition, thanks to their resilience, the Albanians stopped the advance of the enemy for many hours. But their situation worsened when Ottoman field artillery entered action. Dervish Pasha ordered 6 cannons to be brought immediately to the hill near Slivova, which opened fire for more than an hour and a half. He did not hesitate to fire cannon even at the soldiers of one of his battalions (with Albanian nizams) who hesitated to attack, killing 50 of them.
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performed a rare act of bravery: when he realised that he could not kill the men who operated the cannon alone, he put his chest on the cannon where he got a lot of wounds. The
Ottomans got terrified when Mic Sokoli had started to push the cannon downhill, thrusting his chest into the cannon then
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intellectuals and community leaders to resist partition among neighbouring Balkan states and to assert an
Albanian national consciousness by uniting Albanians into a unitary linguistic and cultural nation. The group of representatives that had eventually come to control the League under
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