The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-20
TODAY IN HISTORY.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1910.
Battle OF the Alma.

On September 20, the battle OF the the
Alma. one of the most decisive OF tne
Crimean war. was fought In 1884 nlsIia
Is the name OF q river in the Cr,mea
which flows into the Black sea about
twenty miles north OF Sebastcpoi Inc
vale OF the Alma Is renowned ior tle ,he
beauty OF Its scenery. II was on lne
steep banks of this stream, through The
channel OF which the British troops wad-
ed amidst a shower OF bullets. the armies
of Britain. France and Turkey. under
a victory over the Russian army com
manded by Prince Mentschikon After
flve hours OF stubborn flghilng the Rus
slams were forced TO retreat IN dlSorosr
upon Sebastopol. seventeen per cent o,
their number having been Killed ana
wounded
tempting the dismemberment OF Turkey,
She had made the proposition TO tns
British government to share IN the spoiis.
The latter became suspicious OF the
cars intention AZ the same time the
czar had offended France. Naturally when
these two countries saw the scheme on
the Russians. they formed an alliance
with Turkey and the war followed In
1858.
Sebastopol was tie great arsenal OF
Russia and naturally IL was the polns
from which, it was universally belle2eo,
the EN- bodied ambition OF Russia was
one day to make It's formidable effort OF
aggression.
Within the fence OF It's vast sea forts
the Russian feet OF the Black sed lay
screened Ii, therefore, Seoastopol coulo
ne taken or destroyed. II would seem as
II the whole material faorIc, put To-
gether at such cost and labor for the
execution of the schemes OF Nnsslar
would be shattered at blow. Ihe IN
vasion OF the Crimea was not soldier S
project. 1t was undertaken by Lord Ras-
lin out Of Difference TO the recommenda,
tions of the government and by Marshai
ST. Arnaud out OF Difference to the en-
peror of the French
The allied forces were, therefore, con-
veyed to the southwestern shore OF the
Crmea, and effected landing at kala-
mita bay. short distance north OF 3e 1ae
the sea The disem mbarkment began on
September a. and 1t was completed on on
the fifth day. upon which some b4.oVu
English, French and Turks had landed on
the shores of Catherine the Greats Cri-
mea
On September 10, the allies marched
out of their encsmpments and movea
southwark in the direction OF Sebastopol,
While they had few skirmishes with
the enemy. they had no business or gem
uine war until they approached the near
the 20th that the river was reached.
The attack was made With desperate
courage on the part OF the all'es' put
It was rather a pell-mell sort OF hgnt.
I'm which the headlong courage and the
indomitable obstnacy OF the English and
French troops carried all before them at
last
A study Of the battle shows that II
was little less than a heroic scramble.
But there was. happily for the allies, an
almost total absence OF generalship on
the part OF the Russians. The soldiers or
the car fought stoutly and stuhbornly'
but they could not stand UP against the
blended vehemence and obsrInacy OF the
English and French. The river was
ed. Prince Mentschikoff's great redoubt
was carried the Russians were driven
from the field. the allies occupied their
ground, and the victory was TO the west
ern powers.
The Russians retreated in utter con-
fusion They should have been pursued.
and they themselves expected they would
be. 1t was three days aflerward, now now
ever. before the allies again set their
faces toward Sebastopol
The campaign of the allied armies had
been opened under conditions differing
from those OF most campaigns that went
before IT, Science had added many new
discoveries to the art Of war. Litera-
ture had added one remarkable contribu-
tion OF her own to the conditions amidst
which campaigns were TO oe carried on.
She had added the special correspond
ent.' When the expedition was leaving
England IL was accompanied by spe-
daily papers of London. which was really
the Introduction into army campaigns OF
the war correspondent.
September 90. 1777, was the day on
which General Anthony Wayne was de-
feated at Paoli; on which the Prince oi
Wales now the kine OF England, began
his tour OF the United States at Detroit
in 1860, and on which the revolving tur-
ret was patented by Timby in 1852. 1t
is the birthday of Alexander the Great
(356 B. CO. Emperor Antoninus Plus
CSC A, ID; Charles Carroll. the MARYLAND
statesman 073D; Maria Pauline Bona
parte. the sister of Napoleon (17S0); Gen.
eral John f. Reynolds (lS2o) Albert J
Myer The meteoroloGist, known as "Old
Probabilities" (lS28), and David r,
Locke the humorist, who wrote under
the title petroleum V. Nasby" GS33).
1t is the date of the death OF Lucius Cras-
sus. the great Roman orator (91 B. C);
Owen Glendower, the Welsh patriot
G415): Viscount Falkland royalist states
man G643); Charles VI OF Germany
G740). and William Hutton, the mis-
cellaneous writer (lSl5)