The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . plete independence. Russia alsohad as allies Servia and the petty principality of Montenegro. Bulgaria became the seat of war, and Adrianople beckoned frombeyond the Balkans to Russian ambition. Plevna barred the town was in the hands of the Turks, under Osman Pasha, whohad strengthened his position and was prejiared to make a stubbornresistan
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . plete independence. Russia alsohad as allies Servia and the petty principality of Montenegro. Bulgaria became the seat of war, and Adrianople beckoned frombeyond the Balkans to Russian ambition. Plevna barred the town was in the hands of the Turks, under Osman Pasha, whohad strengthened his position and was prejiared to make a stubbornresistance. If the Russians could not take Plevna, they could noti:)ass beyond the Balkans; therefore they assembled an army thrice thesize of the defenders army, and pushed forward. Three times Os-man Pasha drove them back with great losses. In this emergencythey had recourse to Todleben, the brilliant engineer who had provedhimself the genius of Sebastopol. Under his direction Plevna wasbesieged and starved into surrender. On December 10 the Crescentwas hauled down, and the Russian army of 120,000 took possession. With the fall of Plevna, nothing but snow could block the Balkanpasses to the victorious army. On January 20,1878, the Russians en-. Ul V i\ z E< £ II « c 190 THE GRECO-TURKISH WAR 191 tered Adrianople, and the dominion of the Turks in Europe was tem-porarily at an end. England, having looked on, now came forward to protest. TheRussians were getting too near Constantinople, and the nightmare ofIndia in the claws of the Bear once more began to haunt the Englishbrain. The Treaty of San Stefano was signed, under the terms ofwhich—as there was no JNIetternich to intervene—the sultan acknowl-edged the complete independence of Servia, JNIontenegro, and Ru-mania, and not only granted autonomy to Bulgaria, but permitted anextension of its boundaries that all but expelled the Turk fromEurope. But Rumania, Servia, and Greece were all opposed to this agree-ment, and so, of co
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