Martin Antonenko
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Victory at Schipka-Pass!
During the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, after two battles at the Shipka Pass that were bloody for both sides but victorious for the Russians...
... in the Balkan Mountains the Russians under General Josef Vladimirovich Gurko...
... succeed on January 9, 1878 the entire army of the opposing commander Suleyman Pasha...
... over 32,000 strong, to encircle and to capture!
The battles for the strategically important pass had begun in July 1877 when the Russians managed to take the Shipka Pass and prevent the Ottomans from coming to the aid of an Ottoman army besieged in the town of Plevna (Pleven)...:
General Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov was responsible for defending the important pass...
... who had almost 6,000 men and 25 cannons at his disposal:
10 companies of the (36th) Orlovsky Infantry Regiment...
... four Sonias (= four hundreds) of Cossacks)...
... as well as the first 5 companies of a recently formed Bulgarian volunteer corps...:
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During the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, after two battles at the Shipka Pass that were bloody for both sides but victorious for the Russians...
... in the Balkan Mountains the Russians under General Josef Vladimirovich Gurko...
... succeed on January 9, 1878 the entire army of the opposing commander Suleyman Pasha...
... over 32,000 strong, to encircle and to capture!
The battles for the strategically important pass had begun in July 1877 when the Russians managed to take the Shipka Pass and prevent the Ottomans from coming to the aid of an Ottoman army besieged in the town of Plevna (Pleven)...:
General Nikolai Grigorevich Stoletov was responsible for defending the important pass...
... who had almost 6,000 men and 25 cannons at his disposal:
10 companies of the (36th) Orlovsky Infantry Regiment...
... four Sonias (= four hundreds) of Cossacks)...
... as well as the first 5 companies of a recently formed Bulgarian volunteer corps...:
**continued next post**
