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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ade a con-siderable advance and kept up a troublesomeresistance for many months : so that althoiighthe campaign as a whole was over with Sari-kamish on January 6, 191.), it was not tillApril 8 that the Russians were in a positionto announce officially that the Turks were completely ousted from the districts bor-dering on Batum and Kars. Meanwhile therewas much jubilation in Pcitrograd, and somewriters, with the incurable optimism of theamateur expert, began to talk of the speedyappearance of a Russian aiTny under thewalls of Constantinople. But wo may he sure that Count Vorontsoff-Dashkoff and General Yudenitch cherishedno such illusions. Russias br^st troo()H werefar away on h(!r western front, and thf tho (Jaiieasns, s;)len<li(lly as it had acquitteditself, was crimparatively small in nuinhorsarul mainly (iornpoHcil of seciond linct troops.Thrjr** ensued, therefore, a long period ofwaiting and of fMiofnl pre(»arati()ti before 241 242 THE TIMES HISTORY OE THE WAli
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AFTER THE DEFEAT AT SARIKAMISH.Turkish stragglers making for Erzerum. anything like a general advance could evenbe thought of. And the Russian force inPersia, which has alreatly been mentioned,*was in a difficult position at Tabriz, while troopsfrom the Caucasus were required to maintainthe prestige of the northern empire in thatdirection. By patience, energy, and skillall these difficulties were in time sxirmounted,and it is our task in this chapter to tell thestory of the great advance—one of the mostbrilliant and successful of the whole war—inthe course of which Russias victorious stan-dards were planted successively in Erzerum—Turkeys impregnable citadel in the East—in Trebizond—her leading Black Sea port, thegateway of trade for Eastern Asia INIinor andPersia—in Erzinjan-^a hundred mUes inland-—and in Mush, Bitli-;, and Van, still reeking withthe blood of massacred Armenians. The whole coimtry is one of extraordinarydifficulty for military operations. All Switzer-la

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