The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ^ of the admiration of Europe, and estab-lished an undoubted claim to be placed amongstthe most distinguished of its troojis. But whatshall we say of Williams himself, and his bravecountrymen and assistants, Lieutenant-colonelLake, Major Teesdale, and Captain Thonjpson?But for them, Kars would have fallen. Turkishvalour needs nothing but able commanders, andthese our country had supplied. Tiie Russianloss in this one attack was immens
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ^ of the admiration of Europe, and estab-lished an undoubted claim to be placed amongstthe most distinguished of its troojis. But whatshall we say of Williams himself, and his bravecountrymen and assistants, Lieutenant-colonelLake, Major Teesdale, and Captain Thonjpson?But for them, Kars would have fallen. Turkishvalour needs nothing but able commanders, andthese our country had supplied. Tiie Russianloss in this one attack was immense. Fivethousand bodies were left on the field, and 7000dead and wounded were carried off, while theloss of the besieged scarcelj* exceeded 1000 hunger was now to effect what the enemycould not accomplish. The blockade was kept. General View of Kars.—From Lakes Account of the Siege of Ears. up so closely that no supplies could be intro-duced into the town, and in a short time famineof the most gaimt and revolting character pre-dominated over all classes. The brave defenders,lean, pale, and feeble, were by the ITtli of Octoberno longer like the heroes of the 20th of September,who had driven the enemy from their gates. The leading jioiiits of interest are indicated by flying 6irrf—Ruined cvstle of Tenini Pasha and .\rmenian binU—Cast\o and town of (c tm?.«—TlionipsonsTabiah, marked by group of tents at top of the distant (/i/rf.«—Teesdale Tabiah on the hill, and the suburb ofBeiram Faaha at the foot. The dogs scratched tlie bodies of the soldiersfrom their graves and fed upon them; the verygrass was carefully gathered in the open spaces,and its roots used as food; and crowds of womenand children were moaning in the streets, andsinking and dying of starvati
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