Golub Babić Golub Babić ( ; 7 September 1824 – 19 December 1910 ) was a Bosnian Serb guerrilla chief and one of the most important rebel commanders of the Herzegovina Uprising against the Ottoman Empire . Biography . Born in the Bosnian village of Trubar , near the city of Drvar , on 7 September 1824 of father Ilija and mother Vasilija . Grew up at first fought against the Turkish oppression as a guerrilla chief in the southwestern border of Bosnia . On the revolutionary 1848 , during the Hungarian Revolution , participated in the detachment of Serbian volunteers under the command of Stevan Petrović Knićanin in the fighting in Vojvodina . He returned to Bosnia and in 1858 participated in the Doljanska rebellion where his older brother Božo was killed . Till 1863 he lived in Slavonia , in Pakrac , where most of the Babić family moved along with a lot of people following the failure of the Bosnian Krajina Doljan rebellion . In the winter of 1863 he came with his family in Đakovo , by Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer “ đakovički ” invitation where lived a few months under his protection , and then moved to Serbia , fearing the Austrian authorities could hand him over the Turks , but also because bishop ’ s pressure to convert him to Catholicism , whereas Golub replied to him : " Just because of the religion we left the women and little children , our homeland and that little poverty there . And if we wanted to overturn the faith , we would be rather become a Turk , so in our country would live freely as beys . " Since 1864 . up to 1875 together with his family lived in Serbia , in a village near Obrenovac , Stubline , where they were placed by Loznica priest Ignatius Vasić , having moved to Serbia in Loznica . On August 1875 he returned to Bosnia with his three brothers : Milandža , Pavle i Petar and raised people to the rebellion in the Crni Potoci , and between Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo when he was elected as leader of the rebels in the area of southwestern Bosnia . Already by 15 September 1875 . he had a unity of 25 people by the end of month the unit of about 150 people . The rebellion army in numbers every day became more stronger and better armed . Ilija Guteša sent him 315 rifles " ostraguša " from Vienna and 6 cents of gunpowder that was brought to Serbia by Simo Banjac . To unify the management of the sector struggles he led by , he formed the head office of the rebellion : main headship South - Bosnian rebellion , as the central governing body . He soon gained confidence , authority and prestige among the rebels , so with battle plan achieved a significant military successes . He was a strong supporter and advocate of guerrilla warfare . H \ It was released the territory from Lika to Bjelaja ( with Unce , today Drvar ) and from Dinara to Livno and Glamoč . Together with his seventy - one unit - leaders signed on 2nd July1876 . the Proclamation for the unification of Bosnia with Serbia . In 1877 . ( August 4 ) suffered a military defeat at the saddle , and the rebellion was quelled , after what he moved to Lika and from there until March 1878 . organized a small guerrilla attacks against the Turks in Bosnia and intersection . The same year at the rebel Assembly held in Tiškovac he was elected as a delegate with the Congress of Berlin along with Vaso Vidović , but he didn ’ t go to Berlin because of the efforts of the Principality of Serbia that nothing falling afoul of the Austro - Hungarian Empire . Entering the Austrian army and the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted a conciliatory attitude and keeping , so he submitted to the troops in Serbia . One time he was in the service of the new government in Bihać , accepting it as a temporary solution and is currently better than the Turkish government . Death . Babić died on 19 December 1910 in Sarajevo at the age of 86 . An unknown author wrote the obituary : " " From an early age with arms in hands he fought for his honest brethren . There was no armed movement in which he was not involved . . . " " Literature . Military Encyclopedia , Belgrade , 1970 . , first book , page 423 .