. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . adishah chokyasha! and I then returned to town. On myway, I met Omar Pacha in a small open carriage,drawn by four very handsome Hungarian horses,with his little daughter Eminc on his knee, and abrilliant staff following him on horseback. Hiswife and her mother occupied a chariot-and-four ;and a caleche came next, with the daughtersFrench governess, the wifes German ladys-maid, TURKISH PREPARATIONS FOR WAR:—1853. 29 and two female slaves; and the cortege wasclosed by armed retainers of the pacha on horse-
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . adishah chokyasha! and I then returned to town. On myway, I met Omar Pacha in a small open carriage,drawn by four very handsome Hungarian horses,with his little daughter Eminc on his knee, and abrilliant staff following him on horseback. Hiswife and her mother occupied a chariot-and-four ;and a caleche came next, with the daughtersFrench governess, the wifes German ladys-maid, TURKISH PREPARATIONS FOR WAR:—1853. 29 and two female slaves; and the cortege wasclosed by armed retainers of the pacha on horse-back, and a half squadron of lancers. Theywere taking their usual evening exercise onthe slopes. Emine is a pretty child of nineyears old, already betrothed to the son of adistin<mishcd Turkish statesman. Omar Pachas wife is young, fair-haired, and good-looking, asfar as I could judge through the semi-transparentyashmak. At the end of October 1853, then, a Russianarmy under Prince Gortchakoff, and a Turkisharmy under Omar Pacha, met face to face on theopposite banks of the The Holy Sepulchre. CHAPTER II. CAMPAIGN ON THE DANUBE IN 1853-4.
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