. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . the Turks;hut the sultans forces unfortunately suffered inconsequence of the wrangles between the officers ;the Poles were in many cases jealous of theHungarians, and the Osmanlis jealous of not the Russians heen doubtful concerningthe intentions of the vacillating court of Persia, anattack on the Turkish positions would in all pro-bability have been made in spring; but, distrustingtheir own safety, they postponed their advance. By about April, there were nearly twenty pachaswith the army at Kar
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . the Turks;hut the sultans forces unfortunately suffered inconsequence of the wrangles between the officers ;the Poles were in many cases jealous of theHungarians, and the Osmanlis jealous of not the Russians heen doubtful concerningthe intentions of the vacillating court of Persia, anattack on the Turkish positions would in all pro-bability have been made in spring; but, distrustingtheir own safety, they postponed their advance. By about April, there were nearly twenty pachaswith the army at Kars, weakening it by conflictingcounsels, and by peculation which no amount ofsupervision could wholly prevent; the troops,although increased in number and improved indiscipline and supplies, suffered greatly fromtyphus, brought on mainly by previous neglect. One of the earliest hostile encounters in the yearwas a petty affair. Towards the end of April,about 3000 Cossacks and Russian infantry, with abattery of guns, left Gumri, crossed the riverArpachai, and attacked an outpost of Bashi-. Kabs. Bazouks at the village of Eugene; they killed afew, took a few more prisoners, and then returnedto Gumri. During April and May, the Turks atKars were regularly drilled, to fit them for anevidently approaching conflict with the this necessary work, however, the best arrange-ments were certainly not made. None of theEuropean officers were regimentally employed;they were appointed to the staff headed by Guyon,and were employed as inspectors of artillerypractice, instructors in cavalry movements, andoverseers of the commissariat; these services werevaluable, in so far as the jealousy of the Turkishpachas permitted their development; but eventhen the troops lost the benefit of the aid thatmight have been derived from the Hungariangenerals in all that related to regimental army at Kars having at that time reached25,000, Guyon advised a march across the riverArpachai, to
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