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The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

CHAPTER VIII
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I never before saw such a picture of battle[148]." [Footnote 148: _War Correspondence of the "Daily News,"_ pp.

479-483.
For another character-sketch of Skobeleff see the _Fortnightly Review_ of Oct.

1882, by W.K.

Rose.] Thus all the efforts of the Russians and Roumanians had failed to wrest more than a single redoubt from the Moslems; and at that point they were unable to make any advance against the inner works.

The fighting of September 11-12 is believed to have cost the allies 18,000 men killed and wounded out of the 75,000 infantrymen engaged.


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