Author: A. SchimmelfennigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The War Between Turkey and Russia
Author: A. SchimmelfennigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The War Between Turkey and Russia
Author: A. SchimmelfennigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The War Between Turkey and Russia; a Military Sketch
Author: A SchimmelfennigPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230472768
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... THE TURKISH SYSTEM OF FORTIFICATIONS ON THE THREE THEATRES OF WAR. To describe this syatem in a few words, we may compare it with a bastioned front. The Save and the Danube form the broad moat; the Servian Bosnian forest mountains, and the plateau-formed elevations of the Dobrudja, the projecting bastions; the course of the river at Widden and Hirsova, the flanks, ready to send armies into the rear of the enemy, as he attempts to cross the curtain between Rahova and Rassova; the Balkan furnishes the principal rampart, and the aforementioned chain of valleys on the southern base of the Balkan, enable the Turks to fall upon the enemy with undivided fresh troops, at the moment when he descends exhausted and in bad order from the rampart. If the important town of Adrianople were fortified, it would furnish the means of collecting in the basin of lower Thrace, so rich in resources, the remnants of a defeated army, to re-organize them, and once more to lead them against the enemy, or covered by the fortress, to retreat in good order upon Constantinople, and there strengthened by new armies and the troops of the capital, to make a powerful stand at the positions furnished by the Strandja Dagh, near the centre of the empire, to fight the decisive battle. In this spirit, the ancient system of fortification on the theatres of war, towards the north, appears to have been conceived by its founders. It was worthy of those great warriors, who, girded with the sword of Mohammed, for centuries proved the terror of Europe. But defeated in the open field, the empire began to decline, the fortresses were reduced. The wars with Russia broke their strength, the treaties threw down their walls. The 3000 Turkish soldiers in Belgrade are of no account, they are...
Special Campaign Series: THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR 1877: A Strategical Sketch
Author: F. MauricePublisher:
ISBN: 9781783315246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous sketches. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877 was a quick but successful war initiated by Russia. It was one of the few offensive wars in which Russia had a unifying purpose. In this case, Russia was fighting to secure the rights of Armenians and Christians in the Muslim Ottoman Empire, who were victims of racist or religion based atrocities. There were several major battles in the war, but it was a fairly swift victory for Russia.
The Russo-Turkish War, 1877
Author: Sir Frederick MauricePublisher: London : S. Sonnenschein,.
ISBN:
Category : Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War
Author: Edmund OllierThe Complete War Guide, with a Sketch Map of the Fields of Operation [in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.]
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Author: War GuideSketches of Army Life in Russia
Author: Francis Vinton GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Russo-Turkish War
Author: R. Grant BarnwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The War in the East
Author: Alexander Jacob SchemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description