. Battles of the nineteenth century . tysix guns—were dis-tributed over a dis-tance of seventeenmiles. Osman Pashamust have smiled ashe posted his 40,000men and ninetyguns in the shelter-trenches and battery-emplacements with whichhis northern and eastern front was alreadygarnished. Schilder-Schuldner scouted the sug-gestion that he should wait for ! He had his orders to attack on the morn-ing of the 20th ; he had always obeyed orders,and he meant to do so now ! Accordingly, at da^-break of that morning, hemoved forward from Riben, three batteries in thecentre, a regiment on
. Battles of the nineteenth century . tysix guns—were dis-tributed over a dis-tance of seventeenmiles. Osman Pashamust have smiled ashe posted his 40,000men and ninetyguns in the shelter-trenches and battery-emplacements with whichhis northern and eastern front was alreadygarnished. Schilder-Schuldner scouted the sug-gestion that he should wait for ! He had his orders to attack on the morn-ing of the 20th ; he had always obeyed orders,and he meant to do so now ! Accordingly, at da^-break of that morning, hemoved forward from Riben, three batteries in thecentre, a regiment on either flank. After anhours cannonade, the troops moved forwardand assailed the Grivitza heights. The westernextremity of the trenches was carried after adesperate struggle, in which both sides freelyused the bayonet. The Vologda regiment, withpart of the Archangel regiment on its left, not-withstanding a withering fire from the Turkishshelter-trenches, was able to continue theadvance ; and, after repelling a succession of Verbitza. Brestovetz PLEVNA: THE rOSlTION OF THE attacks made by Turkish battalions, the W-ogdas and Archangels fought their way to thenorthern outskirts of Plevna, where, at sevenoclock, they were brought to a halt by a veryhot fire from behind the hedges and ditches onthe edge of the town. They nevertheless hungon here for some hours, fighting hard and losingheavily, until about eleven oclock they receivedthe order to withdraw. The Kostroma regiment, coming from Zgale-vitza, advanced from the south-east on theGrivitza position, where the subsequently famous redoubt had as yetscarcely been traced,and after a shortcannonade deliveredits assault in columnsof companies. Overand over again thesuccessive tiers oftrenches were takenand retaken at thepoint of the bayonetand with cruelslaughter. A mo-ments hesitation infront of the last andstrongest line of de-fence ended in thebreaking up of theregiment into smallcolumns of lines of thoseco
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