The Serbian defeat at Veliki Siljegovac and Gredetin against Turkish forces in 1876

The Serbian defeat at Veliki Siljegovac and Gredetin against Turkish forces in 1876

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“The Serbian-Turkish War. The Turks have once again dealt a decisive blow to the arrogant and incompetent Russian-Serbian General Ralissimus Chernaev. While he had, for the 50th time, been close to cutting off the Turkish retreat to Nish, on Thursday the 19th the Turks suddenly attacked the right wing of the Serbs and completely defeated them. The Serbs lost their positions at Veliki Siljegovac and Gredetin.

The fighting continued on Friday and Saturday as the Turks advanced. The advantage was again on the Turkish side. Osman Pasha, who, as already mentioned, had received orders to retreat to Viddin as soon as the Russian army corps advanced towards the Danube, has meanwhile shown enough initiative to ambush the Serbs advancing towards Začar Izvor. It turned out that the Serbian claim of the evacuation of Začar by the Turks was pure fabrication. “

Source

“Der” Freimutige politisches Volksblatt fur Jedermann. Einmalige Ausgabe. 1876 (Beilage zu Nr 87 der zweimaligen Ausgabe des Freimüthigen 1876).

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