von Lignitz, p.

99.] It seemed, then, that Russia had no very formidable task before her.
Early in May seven army corps began to move towards that great river.
They included 180 battalions of infantry, 200 squadrons of cavalry, and 800 guns--in all about 200,000 men.

Their cannon were inferior to those of the Turks, but this seemed a small matter in view of the superior numbers which Russia seemed about to place in the field.

The mobilisation of her huge army, however, went on slowly, and produced by no means the numbers that were officially reported.

Our military attache at the Russian headquarters, Colonel Wellesley, reported this fact to the British Government; and, on this being found out, incurred disagreeable slights from the Russian authorities[132].
[Footnote 132: _With the Russians in War and Peace_, by Colonel F.A.
Wellesley (1905), ch.