. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . he Anglo-French troops landedin the vicinity of Athens, May 26th, the strugglewas virtually at an end. The months of Juneand July witnessed the gradual withdrawal of theinsurgents from the Turkish territory, and thegradual restoration of peace to the distracted andimpoverished provinces of Epirus and last scenes of this episode were nearly coin-cident, in time, with the raising of the siege ofSilistria; with the evacuation by the Russians ofthe Danubian Principalities ; with the transference
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . he Anglo-French troops landedin the vicinity of Athens, May 26th, the strugglewas virtually at an end. The months of Juneand July witnessed the gradual withdrawal of theinsurgents from the Turkish territory, and thegradual restoration of peace to the distracted andimpoverished provinces of Epirus and last scenes of this episode were nearly coin-cident, in time, with the raising of the siege ofSilistria; with the evacuation by the Russians ofthe Danubian Principalities ; with the transferenceof the English and French armies from Scutariand Constantinople to Varna ; with the assemblingof the Allied fleets at Kavarna and Baltschik ; withthe hostile manoeuvres of the Russian and Turkishforces in the region around Gumri, Bayazid, andKars; with the suppression of the Russo-Monte-negrin attacks on the western frontier of Turkey ;and with the vain attempts of the diplomatists atVienna to bring about such a peace as wouldrender unnecessary an expedition of the Allies tothe CHAPTER VL NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH IN 1854.
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