Dictionary of Battles: From the Earliest Date to the Present TimeHarbottle, Thomas Benfield
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Dictionary of Battles: From the Earliest Date to the Present Time
Harbottle, Thomas Benfield
Battles
Fought September 1, 1880, between the British, under Lord Roberts, and
the Afghans, under Ayub Khan, immediately after the completion of the
famous march from Kabul. Ayub was completely defeated, with a loss of
2,000 men, and his army dispersed. The British losses were only 248
killed and wounded.
Kapolna (Hungarian Rising).
Fought February 26 and 27, 1849, between four Hungarian divisions, under
Dembinski, and the Austrians, under Windischgrätz, of whom only
Schlick’s corps, 15,000 strong, was seriously engaged. The Hungarians
held their own on the 26th, but on the evening of the 27th Schlick
captured the key of the position at Kapolna, whereupon the Hungarians
retired, though unpursued.
Kappel (Second War of Kappel).
Fought October 10, 1531, between the army of the Swiss Catholic Cantons,
8,000 strong, and 1,300 Zurichers, under George Göldli, reinforced later
in the day by a similar number under Rudolf Lavater. Göldli attacked in
defiance of orders, and was totally defeated, among those who fell being
Zwingli.
Kara Burur (Ottoman Wars).
Fought August 11, 1791, when the Russian fleet, under Admiral
Ouschakoff, totally defeated the Turks after a sanguinary engagement.
Karamuran.
Fought during the winter of 1225, between 300,000 Tartars under Genghiz
Khan, and 500,000 Turks, Chinese and others under Shidasker of Tangat.
Shidasker was totally routed, with a loss, it is said, of 300,000 men.
Karaku (Tartar Invasion of Kharismia).
Fought 1218, between the Tartars, 700,000 strong, under Genghiz Khan,
and 400,000 Kharismians under the Sultan Mehemed. At nightfall the
battle was undecided, and the armies withdrew to their camps, but
Mehemet, who had lost 140,000, refused to renew the conflict on the
following day, and Genghiz Khan, having suffered too severely to attack
his entrenchments, withdrew.
Karee (Second Boer War).
Fought March 29, 1900, when a Boer force holding a line of hills about
eighteen miles north of Bloemfontein, were driven from their
entrenchments by a British division under General Tucker. The British
lost 10 officers and 172 men killed and wounded.
Kargaula (Cossack Rising).
Fought 1774, between the insurgent Cossacks of the Don, under Ikkelman
Pugatcheff, and the Russians, under Prince Gallitzin. The insurgents
were routed with great slaughter, and Pugatcheff fled to the mountains.
Kars (Crimean War).
This fortress, held by a Turkish garrison under General Williams, was
besieged by the Russians in the course of the Crimean war. The place was
most gallantly defended but was finally forced by famine to capitulate,
November, 1855.
Kars (Russo-Turkish War).
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