The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-09
Disaster to the Russians. The Battle of
Plevna.

states. The following closing scenes give
a vivid idea of the extent of the Russian
disaster: The correspondent is with
Prince Scholarships command, and does
rot purport to give any account of the
condition or losses Of General krudcner's
corps. Prince Schackoskoy had not a
man lett to cover the retreat, and the
Turks struck without stint They had
the upper hand for once, and were deter
mined to make the most of it. They aQ-
Nanced III sWarmS, through the dust, on
their first original position, and captured
the Russian cannons before the batteries
could be withdrawn. The Turkish shells
began once more to whistle over the ridge
above Radishova and fall into the village
behind, no" crammed with wounded.
The streams of wounded vending their
painful way over the ridge were incessant.
The badly wounded mostly lay where
they fell. Later in the darkness, the
Bashi-Bazouks sWarmed over the battle
field and spared not Lingering there on
the ridge till the moon rose, the staff
could hear from below the cries of pain
and entreatles for mercy, and the wells of
the blood thirsty Nictors. The Turks had
our range before dark. and we could
watch the flash OF flame over against us,
and then listen to the scream of the shell
as it tore by us. The sound of the rifle
bullets was lncessant and the escort and
rctrtatlng wounded We're struck. \ de
tachment at length began to come stray
Cling up. But to give some idea Of dis
organization when a company was told
oil to cover somewhat the wounded in
RadishoVa, it had to be made up Of men
of several regiments. About . o'clock
The staff quilted the ridge, leaving it it
tered with groaning men, General kru-
dencr sent word in the morning that he
had lost severely and could make no
headWay. and had resolved to fall back
on the line Of the River Osma. There
had been talk of his troops being fresh /:
Of renewing the attack to-day with his
cooperation, but we have no troops to
attack with. The moderate estimate is
that we have lost two regiments. say
5000 men out Of our three brgades. a
%hastlY number, beating Eylau and
trcdland." This takes no account of
General krudcner's losses. We, too. re-
tire on the Osma River, about Bulgayeni,
and, To the best of our weak strength.
cover the bridge at SlStoVa. Not a Rus
slan soldier stands between TirnoVa and
The victorious Turkish army in Loyeca
and PlcVna, and only a weak division Of
the Eleventh Corps stands between Tir-
nova and the Shunla army. | look on
Prince SchakOskoy'S force us no longer
Tor this campaign to be counted us a
lighting ntegcr SO, on this side of the
Balkans, there remains but the Ninth
Corps, already roughly handed-once at
Nlkopolis and once at Plevna-one divis-
ION Of the Eleventh Corps and the Rust
chull army. If the Rllstchuk army is
marched to the west against Plevna, then
the Turkish army OF Rustchuk is let loose
on the Russian communications to Tir-
nova The advance over the Balkans is
seriously compromised. The Russian
strait is so bad that scattered detach-
mcnts have been called up from out of
Roumania, and the Roumanlan division,
commanded by General Mann, which
crossed a day or two ago at Nikopolis,
has been called up to the line Of the Osna
River We are falling back on Bulgaveni
with all speed, leaving the Bulgarian vii
lagos to the tender mercies of the Turks.
ON our left General SkObcloff was very
severely handled, having lost 300 men
out OF his single infantry battalion"
HOW THE RATTLE WAS LOST
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to send cavalry TO occupv Plcyna When
he was proceeding against Nicopolis. The
only opportunity of the Turkish column
marching from Widden too late to relieve
NicopoliS. was to occupy Plevna. Bru-
dencr. intending to rcpajr his blnndcr in
the failure to- seize Plevna. semi three
REGIMENTS to occupv if which they did of-
terra severe hmht. and then laid aside tbnir
accoutrcments and scattered throuoh thr
streets. Suddenly - dreadful mnSEotrv
fife was opened on them from 100 WIN.
dows. and the Russians nrecinitatclv fled
from the town.
Another corrcspondcnt attrb,tes the
plpyn3 defeat tn tbe Ruesianc hoino
Turkish division The Russians o,yaI
their cannon. Osman Pasha admits tbot
both sides lost enormously Most of IVA
Russian officers ascrjbe the victory nartlv
to the supcliority of the Henry Martini
rifles used bv the Turks. After This vic
tory Osman pasha directed the advance
toward Gahrowa todislodge the Rnssians
from the northern openinp of Schinka
Pass. Another force was disnatchcd
toward Nicopolis TO ENGAGE fine Roumon-
i;lns galnisoninr that fortress.
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