After the victory at Ivankovac in August 1805, Karađorđe led the insurgent army towards Paraćin, after which he fortified himself on what is today Karađorđe’s Hill and had Trenches dug. The Ottoman army tried several times to break through the insurgent positions from the direction of Paraćin, but was defeated in a series of clashes that took place between the Crnica River and Karađorđe’s Hill. According to written documents and oral accounts of contemporaries, during these battles Hafiz Pasha, the commander of the Ottoman army stationed in Paraćin, was mortally wounded when he was struck by cannon fire from Karađorđe’s Hill, fired by Stevan Stevanović, Karađorđe’s scribe. Following these events, the Ottomans ingloriously retreated towards Niš.

The battles of 1805 were not the only historical events in which Karađorđe’s Hill played an important role. At the end of the First World War (1918), German troops fortified themselves at this site with artillery, hoping to stop the advance of the Serbian army after the breakthrough of the Salonika (Macedonian) Front, but they failed to do so.