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Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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little while with our trained battalions. But we waitedso long that they learned how to fight, partly through our own instruction,and then it required the best of fighting to defeat them. It looked at one time as if the Turcomans would altogether preventus from getting any foothold in their country beyond the shores of the Cas-pian. Skirmishes almost without number occurred, in which sometimesthe Russians and sometimes the Turcomans had the best of the contest. 454 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Skobeleff, then a captain, was one of those who landed at Krasnovodsk in1869. He made more successes in tlie figliting with the Turcomans thananybody else; but in 1873 he was called away in the campaign againstKhiva, and from that time to 1879 nothing of moment was accom-j)liphed. In 1878 Tekme Sardar, a Turcoman chief, submitted to the Kussians,and was received into their camp at Krasnovodsk. He remained thereseveral months, and then, for some real or fancied injury, fled from the
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KIRGHESE TOMB. camp, and collected his followers with the determination to make war onthe invaders. At a place called Geok Tep^ he formed a junction withother chiefs, and established a camp. Tekme Sardar had made good use of his eyes during his stay amongus. He showed his people how to build forts. About forty thousandTurcomans, with their families, collected at Geok Tepe, and threw up animmense earthwork exactly like the defences built by the Russians. Gen-eral Lomakin advanced against this earthwork in 1879, and after a seriesof skirmishes outside the walls he attacked the Turcomans in their strong-hold, and was severely repulsed. He retired to the shores of the Caspian,and thus ended the campaign for that year. General SkobelefiE was then appointed to the command of the Turco- WARFAKE IN TURKESTAN. 455

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