Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . outhern Caucasus and a partof Armenia thus passed into Russian control, where theyhave ever since remained, and several minor advantageswere obtained by the Czar in the Treaty of Adrianopleand the conventions which followed it. An officer ofrank was despatched to Asia immediately after the signingof the treaty; in less than a fortnight from the memorable28th of August all hostilities were suspended, and shortlyafterwards peace was declared. General Paskievitch, who commanded the Russian armyin Asia, was re
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . outhern Caucasus and a partof Armenia thus passed into Russian control, where theyhave ever since remained, and several minor advantageswere obtained by the Czar in the Treaty of Adrianopleand the conventions which followed it. An officer ofrank was despatched to Asia immediately after the signingof the treaty; in less than a fortnight from the memorable28th of August all hostilities were suspended, and shortlyafterwards peace was declared. General Paskievitch, who commanded the Russian armyin Asia, was rewarded with the baton of a similar honor was given to General Diebitsch, in addi-tion to the title Zabalkanski (Trans-Balkanian), incommemoration of his daring march across that hithertoimpassable mountain chain. A major-general at twenty-five, and lieutenant-general at twenty-eight, he was oneof the most remarkable soldiers whose names adorn themilitary records of Russia. He was only in his forty-fifthyear when he became a field-marshal, after the peace CHAPTER V. BATTLE OF STAOUELI AND FALL OF ALGIERS—1830. In the year 454 of the Christian era, Genseric, the rulerof Northern Africa, sent an expedition that ravaged thecoast of Sicily and Italy, captured Rome, which was givenup to sack for fourteen days, and returned to Africa withsixty thousand prisoners. The fleet of Genseric was theprecursor of the pirates and corsairs that ravaged theMediterranean from that time to the present century, andthe prisoners that were brought from Rome were the van-guard of that vast array of foreign slaves who toiledunder Algerine and other. barbaric masters until theFrench conquest of which we are about to speak. Under the Turkish rulers of Algeria piracy becamea well-organized system, and Avas regarded as legitimatea means of obtaining wealth as in our day we regard themanufacture of woollen or cotton goods, or the shipmentof grain or other products to a profit
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