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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER U. IN CENTRAL ASIA. Central Asia as a school of arms?Skobelefl' in Samarkand in 1809?At Krasnovodsk?The march on Khiva?His first wound ? First to enter Khiva?A reconnaissance in the desert?Mission to Khokand ?The Khan and his treasure carts?The battle of Makhram?Annexation of Namangan?Revolt of Abdurrahman?Capture of An- dijan?A night attack on his pursuers?Khokand in revolt?Second capture of Andijan?Annexation of Khokand?Governor of Ferghana?His career in Central Asia?Slandered and vindicated. What India is to England and Algeria to France, Central Asia is to us?a school of arms, a training ground for soldiers, where a handful of Westerns hold sway amidst millions of Asiatics. These vast regions conquered for civilisation by European arms of precision, secured from anarchy by European habits of administration, offer an irresistible attraction to ambitious and restless youth. To Turkestan, therefore, Skobeleff hastened as soon as he had completed those military studies of which he was destined to make such excellent use in later years. He had learned the art of war theoretically in the Academy of St. Petersburg. He went to complete his studies by practical experience in the rough apprenticeship of Central Asian warfare. SAMARKAND AND KRASNOVODSK. 11 It was in the year 1S69, when he was twenty- six years of age, that he began his military career in Asia, under General Abramoff, a gallant and active officer who raised himself from the position of a sub- captain to that of Governor of Samarkand, where he greatly distinguished himself by his bravery, energy j and justice. It was a good school for the young Skobeleff to serve under such a commander, and he learned his first lessons of Oriental war in Abramoff's expedition on the borders of Bokhara. Soon aft...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217994781
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217994784
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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