On May 4, 1903, Gotse Delchev was killed in a battle with Turkish infantry.
In March 1903, Gotse Delchev's squad blew up the bridge on the Angista River — on the Thessaloniki railway — Edirne.
At the beginning of May of the same year, on the way to a meeting with the leaders of the Sersko revolutionary district, his squad was surrounded in the village of Banitsa, Sersko. The detachment, commanded by Major Husein Tefikov, who is a fellow graduate of Gotse Delchev, blockaded the village on the night of May 3rd to 4th on a signal that comites were spending the night there. Gotse Delchev decided to take the Chetniks out of the village, but the attempt failed. After a one-day battle with their superior loss, Gotse Delchev falls dead.
Gotse Delchev was born in Kukush in 1872 in the family of Nikola and Sultana Delchevi, and his brothers Milan, Dimitar and Hristo Delchevi were also revolutionaries from VMORO. He graduated from the Bulgarian Uniate primary school, and then the Bulgarian exarchate junior high school in his hometown, after which he continued his education at the Thessaloniki Bulgarian Boys' High School “St. St. Cyril and Methodius“, where he created a secret revolutionary circle together with Dame Gruev, Gyorche Petrov and Boris Sarafov.
In 1891, he entered the Military School in Sofia, but because of his participation in a socialist circle, he was expelled just a month before his graduation. As a result, he decided to fight for the freedom of Macedonia, as he planned to use the already built educational network of the Bulgarian Exarchy to build a revolutionary organization. In the fall of 1894, he was appointed as an exarch teacher in Shtip, where he taught until 1896.
At the same time, as the chief Chetnik inspector and with the help of Bulgarian officers, he established the Chetnik Institute of the VMORO in the Principality of Bulgaria, which began to send trained Chetniks and voivodes to the interior of Macedonia and played a major role in the massification of the movement. He also makes great efforts to supply the organization with weapons and money.
As chief auditor of the detachments, Gotse Delchev undertook several tours around Macedonia, Odrinska Thrace and the Rhodopes. These regions are divided into revolutionary districts. In 1897, he toured Melnishko and consecrated the teachers Georgi Potskov, Pavel Georgiev, a teacher in Kashina, Nikola Naydenov from Kovachevo, the Temelkovi brothers from Orman. He founded a revolutionary committee in Melnik and appointed Iliya Daskalov as its head.
In 1902, together with Gyorche Petrov, he participated in the development of a new program and statute of the organization. It already sets itself the goal of attracting and uniting “all disaffected elements in Macedonia and Odrinsko, regardless of nationality” and to win full political autonomy.