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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and assail the redoubts of the middle group J 04 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. on the lower swell, due east of the town.Kriideners whole army was a little over 30,000men, consisting of 36 battalions, 30 squadrons,and 176 guns; of which 24 battalions, noguns, and 10 squadrons belonged to his own(the right) wing, 11 battalions, 54 guns, and8 squadrons constituted Schahofskoys (the left)wing, and i battalion, 12 guns, and 12 squadronswas Skobeleffs detached command on the ex-treme left. The main fault of the dispositions valley running north and south, in the centre ofwhich lay the town of Plevna, its white mina-rets, on which the sun was shining, visible abovethe encircling trees. On the long ridge formingthe northern section of the horse-shoe werediscernible the tents of the Turkish camps, andon its nearer shoulder lay the Grivit^a redoubt^of which later the world was to hear so much.Now it did not seem very formidable—merely arough parallelogram—all of defence visible being ?
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at--- * ^ THE GENERAL HAD RISEN, AND WAS STANDING AGAINST A TREE (/. 1C6). was that Kriidener and Schahofskoy were prac-tically independent of each other, so that the twoattacks were far apart and with no connectinglink ; but the gravest evil was the weaknessof the assailing force. The key of the Turkishposition was the Grivitza redoubt. Schahofskoys advance from Poradim beganat 6 a.m. As the infantry went swinging pasttheir general, they cheered vigorously, andseemed ready for anything. After a two-hoursmarch the head of the column reached theupland in front of Pelischat, whence the wholePlevna region lay before it. The headquarterstood temporarily halted near the apex of a greathorse-shoe, closed in at the heel by a wooded a bank of earth with a ditch at its outer foot, afew guns here and there, and a good many Turksinside the work. To his left front, as Schahofskoylooked toward Plevna, he saw the long ridge ofRadischevo, forming the southern edge of thehorse-shoe, and the valley be

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