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the entrenched camp at Shumla but here, too.
ne was driven back with great carnage. The
turks, though unacquainted with regular disci-
pine In the field, made a fierce and sanguinary
resistance when attacked behind their ram
parts On these occasions they issued their
memorable bulletin That they had taken
such a number of infdels' heads, that they
would serve as bridge by which the faithful
might pass over to the other world" It is to
the vigorous defence of these two places, and
the losses sustained before them, that the de-
rangement of the Russian plans, and the final
failure OF the campaign, are generally attribut-
ed In the month Of September, Kaminsky
left Langcron before Rutschuk, and with his
disposable force suddenly attacked the Turks
at bayne. They defended themselves with
desperate yalor; but were at length defeated,
with the loss of twelve thousand men in killed
and wounded; and Rutschuk was compelled to
surrender with all the Turkish flotilla living be-
iore 1t, and Giurdzio on the other side In or
der to create diversion, the Turks now sent a
fleet into the Black Sea, and threatened an at
tack on the Cnmea. Notwithstanding this, the
Russians concentrated their forces in Bulgaria.
and the Grand Vizir was obliged to retreat be.
fore them across the Balcan, and take I'D DO
sltion al Adrianople leaving, however, the
strong and impregnable fortresses of Varna on
the sea coast, and Shumla on the ascent of the
mountains, we'll secured at the other side The
feeble Selim, and his successor Mustapha, had
both been strangled; and Mahomed had been
called to the throne, who even then displayed
the vlgor which since has distinguished him He
set up the standard of the prophet at Daud Pa
sha, large plain two miles from Constantine
pie, and issued a hatasherif, that all Mussul.
men should rally round it, In this way he
assembled, in a short time, large army ap-
pointed newGrand Vizir, whom he sent on
with the troops, and returned to the city The
new Vizir, Ahmed Aga, was man of the same
energy as the Sultan, and had distinguished
himself by his defence of Ibrail He immed-
ateIy descended from the mountains, forced the
detached corp of Russians in Bulgaria to re-
cross the Danube, and made fierce attack up.
on Rutschuk, defended by the Russian Gener-
al, Kutosov. The Russians, hard pressed.
transported tie inhabitants to the other side of
the river, Sc: fire to the town in four quarters,
and then reteated themselves. The Turks
rushed into the burning town, put a stop to the
confagration and took up their position there
The Grand Yizir having thus driven the Rus
SLAMS to the opposite shore, was now determin
ed to follow them; and he made the attempt in
three places, Widdin, Rutschuk, and Sistria.
He succeeded at Widdin, and established thirty
thousand mel in Wallachia. He also succeed
ed at RutschIk. took possession of large isl
and in the riper called Slobodse, and, in perfect
confidence, passed the greater part of his army
to the other side, and established them in an
entrenched camp. Kutosov was not idle he
Immediately availed himself of the Vizir's cross
ing over, and detached eight thousand men,
under General Markof, to attack the camp he
had left behind
A Turkish camp is formed without any reg
ularitF. The Grand Vizir's tent is always con-
spcuous in the centre, and becomes the nucleus
round which all the rest are pitched, as every
man chooses to place them. 1t is, however,
their strong hold, 10 which they always retire.
as wild animal to its lair; and they defend it
with the same ierceness and obstinacy On
this occasion they were completely surprized :;
the whole of the camp, including the Generals
tent, fell into the hands of the Russians, and
the fugitive Turks crowded into Rutschuk.
Here they were cannonaded by the artillery of
their own abandoned camp, and General Lam
gerOn, from the other side, directed one hun
dred pieces of cannon to bear upon them. The
Vizir having heard of this misfortune, threw
himself into little boat, and availing himself
Of storm of wind and rain, he pushed across
and landed in safety; but the Russians now
brought up their fotilla, and intercepted all
communication between the divided portions Of
the Turkish army. They next attacked and
carried the island, and turned the guns on the
entrenched camp of the Turks, who were thus
cut off from all communication or supply In
this state they endured the severest privation :;
and after feeding on the flesh of their horses,
and giving up all hope of relief, they were COM
PEELED to surrender, having lost 10000 men IN
the different assaults made on them. This was
the last effort of the combatants. The Turks,
who had entered Wallachia, at Widen, retired
to the other side, and the Grand Vizer, having
received great Teinforcements, concentrated
them at Rutschuk but while the combatants
were preparing to renew the sanguinary Co.,
fiicts, the exhausted state of the one, and the
critical state of the other, invaded by the
French, induced them to come to an aceommo-
daton; and the peace of Bucharest, concluded
in 1879, gave another accession of territory to
the Russians, extending their frontier from the
Neister to the Pruth, and assigning to them all
the country that lay between the two rivers,
Bessara5ia, and considerable part of Moldavia
The Russians withdrew from the provinces
of Wallachia and Moldava which they had &C.
cupied for seven years, and have never since
entered them. They are now, however, in ap-
pearance about to renew their desperate con-
ficts, and dye the Danube again with blood !;
and the general opinion is, that they will meet
with no etfectual opposition to their further
progress; but certainly the events of the last
campaign should induce us to adopt different
opinion. They availed themselves of moment
OF their enemies weakness. and advanced, with
little opposition to that river; here they stop
ped; and after very sanguinary and persever-
ing conflict of six years, we find them, at the
end of the period, still on its shores. Whenev-
err they attempted to proceed beyond it, they
were driven back with carnage; and single
town, scarcely fortified, as contemplate in the
eyes, as it would be weak in the hands, of Eu-
ropean troops, etfectually arrested their career,
Should they force this artificial barrier, they
have to encounter natural one, infinitely more
formidable, and that is, the Balkan mountains.
Over this great rampant there are five practical
BILE passes; one from Sophia to Tartar Bazaar