The Way of Botev’s Platoon: Borovan

The first hours of May 18, 1876.

From Butan the detachment headed for the large Bulgarian village of Borovan, fending off attacks from Circassian groups attacking them out of the blue. The hope that a group of insurgents would join the Cheka in Borovan proved to be in vain. Nikola Obretenov remembers that only one woman brought them water. The Chetniks did not blink all night and left the village exhausted.