The Eye-witnesses' Account of the Disastrous Russian Campaign Against the Akhal Tekke Turcomans: Describing the March Across the Burning Desert, the Storming of Dengeel Tépé, and the Disastrous Retreat to the CaspianW.H. Allen, 1880 - 377 sider |
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Advanced Guard afterwards Akhal Tekke aoul arrived Arsky Artchman artillery Askabat Atrek attack Baku Bami Bateer Battalion battery Bayat Khaji Bendesen Beurma camels camp campaign Caspian Caucasus cavalry Colonel column commander Correspondent Count Borch Daghestanis Dengeel Tepe desert despatched detachment distance ditch Dooroon Douz Oloum Dragoons encampment enemy expedition fire force fortress four Geok Tepe Golos Gospodin Arsky ground Gruzin guns horses infantry Kabardin Kara Karadji Kavkaz Khiva Khoja Kala kibitkas killed Kirghiz Kizil Arvat Kopet Dagh Krasnovodsk latter Lazareff Lomakin Main Body maize Merv miles morning night Noor Verdi Khan Novoe Vremya o'clock oasis officers Persian Prince Dolgoroukoff rampart Regiment Rifles river road rocket Rooski Invalide roubles Russian sand Sheervan side soldiers sotnias sotnias of Cossacks squadron stream Sumbar Sumbar river Tarsakan Tchat Tchikishlar Tekke oasis Tekme Sardar tents Tergoukasoff thousand Tiflis Trans-Caspian transport traversed troops Turcomans versts Volga Cossacks Wagenburg wall wounded Yomoods
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Side 7 - ... and to encamp in a suitable place. If your Excellency sees that the Yomuds are not occupying themselves with getting together money, but are assembling for the purpose of opposing our troops, or perhaps even for leaving the country, I order you immediately to move upon the settlements of the Yomuds which are placed along the Hazavat canal and its branches, and to give over the settlements of the Yomuds and their AA families to complete destruction, and their lands and property to confiscation.
Side 18 - About twelve versts from the wells we arrived at the gates, as it were, of an enormous wall, which bore a greater resemblance to an artificial structure than to a natural conformation of the soil. Three versts beyond this point the valley of the river Atrek appeared in sight, with the river itself winding in zig-zags between high and verdant banks. " To the left of the road, and on a high mound, stands a little stone edifice, which is called...
Side 8 - If the Yomuds become submissive, stop ravaging them, but keep watch of what is being done among them, and at the least attempt to migrate carry out my order for the final extermination of the disobedient tribe.
Side 16 - August, 1875. tut the flics, which were in myriads, continued to be very troublesome. The steppe over which the road now ran presented a livelier and more animated appearance ; salines, with patches of verdure, became here and there visible ; the sand was almost everywhere overgrown with grass ; numerous camel tracks and roads were noticed ; the soil became firmer, so that even the guns moved along easily. About 9 in the evening we reached Murat-Lar locality, where there are no wells, though, judging...
Side 7 - This was on the 17th of July. Two days later he addressed a written despatch to General Golovatcheff, ordering him to march against the Yomoods without waiting for the term of grace to expire. The despatch ended with the words : — " I order you immediately to move upon the settlements of the Yomoods...