Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-19
THE FIGHT AT THE PASS.

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Suleiman Pasha has concluded to
adopt Xerxes' tactics, in the hope of
destroying the Russians in Schpka
pass as the Persans did the Greeks at
Thermopyl@. In the savage valor dis.
played by the defenders and the ap.
parently unconquerable determination
OF the Turks to get possession of the
best position in the Balkan, the fight
ing at Schipka may not unworthily be
compared with the three days battle
for the road TO Athens. The disparity
in numbers not SO great, nor the topo-
graphical surroundings similarin more
than one essential respect. The pass
at Thermopyle was the only road by
which Greece could be entered from
the northeast. Here Leonidas had
eight thousand men, Behind Xerxes
there were two million. Supposing
that one man would presume TO resist
his advance, he sent o herald to Leoni-
das commanding the Greeks TO lay
down their arms. "Come and take
them" said the Spartan. Tho herald
reminded him that so enormous were
would darLon ,hn srn .SThon ,ro I shaII
fgbt in Tho sbade . was ,ha nromn,
rejoinder. For two days the Persian
soldiers advanced in close files, and the
the assa}Iants montod niles of cornses
The mass Is described Az bav;ng been
then five miles in length and, accord.
ing to Herodotus, fifty feet wide. De.
posits accumulated by the streams
from the mountains have so widened
il that il no longer corresponds with
the old descriptions. Abandoning the
hope of overcoming the Greeks before
starvation would have attacked his
own army, Xerxes seriously Thought
of retreat, when another passage
through the mountains was revealed
to him, by which he was enabled to
throw twenty thousand men TO the
rear OF the Greeks. The treachery
being discovered, Leonidas dismissed
all but three hundred of his men, and
.neso' vAVsps CIV, uonPneu W .uo io.,
ser e,. WIN wy; .Y 'nY Spartan ,r, Jaw iorpiuu'ng
the common LOT was carried n crinnle
TO Sparta but SO detested was he for
SUSPECTED cowardice that he could not
Obtain aeven n ligbt for his fre saws
.u oo'"'u eayn q lSps ioi nis n'9' says
sns snlJ.lVle' l. ou' 10 .ep"in1u n'' '''''
'oisu'o " uoio'o '"'or ~ '"'c"'
The lighting, at Schipka pass has
been gong on almost necessarily since
August L. uourko, IL VIII DC remem'
Dcred, dashed below the balkan, plac-
ing a small force at Eskl Saghra, an
other at rem Saghra, taxing easy pos
session oil kezanilk, and penetrating
so lar southwark as 70 cut IN Two
places the railroad iinc which, having
lts northeasteril terminus at iamooil
goes west 70 fhli,ippopols ana south
70 AdrlhhoPie. lhere appeared 70 pe
no suostantlal oostapies IN the way OF
a march 70 oohstaht'nqple, ana inc
men IN the camp AT hezahlik spent
.helr leisure singing songs masking
iovo 70 tne girls ana shlfi,ng tne ouor
OF the miilions Oh roses whose uistii'a,
t,on cons'''u.es ,;,' sne cn'e, ,nuas.ry a;s o.
,NeAa''',n, "'s'ns ~ .Iu' yIo ,e.n,o,Io
,nenss i.' "nose aa,,sai "gu'u hass" spe U
T.',' my o'a. nn 'o"au ma .ns DoPny' 10 r;,, va
NY -, .,, WV c.s o'v,o ,l'o S .'su a~na., VIII
v11,o Ganns y n.., In 80, AZ III ~ -, ~ o,.ass
0rs q. @aaso q "N ~ ~ ns ,a,s - ps;soo %
~ ~ os' "soise, Ane " pion'o.e . s,'S ,anoo
uSvno ,a;, " ". !; am ,h ~ une, GO T;ruo T
,o' WE VIII JHP,J's ~ wy o"Psuv ~
a nmo WY ''Ums ME ,nos ,"so
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s.on snU ' ,ho od,"noa T, ,ras ,hen ov
ssop s"v ~ ~ ~ TT m, -, "" sa,In a ".
peo.eu s, snas Wv s as.;,';u ngue oT ,Ia pP ~
s;nn .no, 'as ,;aoa ,-,' ~ ] anaiI.hla no;n, I
, ,nh;lo ,ho ' 5onooral;sa,;on 10 os ,ha plpvna
Tassat MSs '"c con,;nuod anJ as Suleiman
pasha ,s;,h h,s 6f,v tbo,sand raanlors
c.ass Moatonnor ~ "a aireodv ;o;nod
Poorf pasha !, was b;ahlv necessary
,Sa, canrLn shonid oet b;s do,ocS.
men,s @ tonethar already somcwhat
,nos"I,, s,r;hn,od tn r;oor 81 sn
io;mo4 pasbo torced Gour[o IN, ofI
Esls; sachrn and Yeni Saobra and
Ko1orl,t nod 70 ho lef, % t6e TnrlTs
who at once fortified il as their soutb
Rallson base
The mos, axtravogant disnatcbes