The battles of the world : $b or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military eventsBorthwick, J. Douglas (John Douglas)
History
The battles of the world : $b or, cyclopedia of battles, sieges, and important military events
Borthwick, J. Douglas (John Douglas)
Battles; Military history
General Kmety, after having repulsed the Russians, went forward
with four companies of chasseurs to Yuksek Tabia, which was
sorely pressed. Major Teesdale pointed out a battalion of Russian
chasseurs which lay hidden behind Yarem Ai Tabia (this work having
been abandoned by the Laz at the commencement of the battle), and
begged that they might be dislodged. The General at once determined
to carry the battery; so, forming up his men, he charged and drove
the Russians down the hill; leaving a company to defend the work,
he returned to Yuksek Tabia, from whence perceiving a battalion
of the enemy trying to turn the right wing of Tahmasb Tabia, he
reinforced his corps with three companies from Major Teesdale,
and charged the Russians; here, too, he was successful. In the
meantime reinforcements were sent up from below; these formed
behind the tents of the reserve, and watched their opportunity in
attacking the Russian columns, when driven back from an assault
on the batteries. For seven hours this went on; reserve after
reserve of the enemy was brought forward, but only to meet death.
Nothing could shake the firmness of our troops, till at length the
Russians, wearied and dispirited, at eleven A.M., turned and fled
down the hills in a confused mass, not one single company keeping
its ranks. The army was followed in its flight by the townspeople
and Bashi-bazouks, who brought down hundreds as they fled. While
the infantry were engaged in this conflict, the Cossacks tried to
penetrate into the tents of the reserve, but they were soon driven
back by the townspeople and infantry reserves with heavy loss.
One battalion of Russian infantry attempted to march round the
position, and take a small battery situated in a commanding
position on the road leading to a village called Tchakmak. It
commenced its march in splendid order, but ere it went 600 yards
it was broken and in great disorder, and so terrified, that
fifty or sixty of our chasseurs drove the broken mass down the
Tchakmak valley like a flock of sheep. The cause of the terror
was the terrible fire opened upon it by Yuksek Tabia, the guns of
Sheshanegee Tabia and Fort Lake.
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