Battle of Kurekdere

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Battle of Kurekdere
Part of the Crimean War
Date 1854
Location Gyumri, Armenia
Result Russian Victory[1][2]
Combatants
Flag of TurkeyOttoman Empire Flag of RussiaRussian Empire
Strength
40,000[3] 18,000[3]
Casualties
3500[4] 3000[4]
Crimean War
Sinop – Kurekdere – Petropavlovsk – Alma – Sevastopol – Balaclava – Inkerman – Eupatoria – Taganrog – Chernaya River – Kars – Malakhoff – Kinburn

The Battle of Kurekdere took place in 1854 as part of the Crimean War. It started when the Ottoman army of Kars marched towards Gyumri to attack the Russian force, already weakened with detachments. The battle was related with great spirit and the defeat of the Turkish army by the Russian forces.[1]

In accounting the Russians for the defeat of an army nearly 40,000 Ottoman forces of all arms by a hostile force of less than one-half that number, it is not sufficient to say that the management of the whole battle on the side of the Turks was a series of blunders from the first to last, strategical errors might have protracted the mission and have added to the cost of a victory.[1][5] Four months after the battle of Kurekdere no military operations took place. Some European officers there were strongly advised a forward movement on Tiflis.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d A Narrative of the Siege of Kars: Together with a narrative of travel and adventures in Armenia... - Page 98 by Humphry Sandwith
  2. ^ Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 [signed G.D.]. By George Dodd
  3. ^ a b Story Of Kars, Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 12, Issue 72, May 1856.
  4. ^ a b The Caucasians and Circassians - Schamyl, the Prophet Warrior - Erzeroum - Trebizond - Kars - Asiatic Campaign - Intrigues in the North-West of Turkey - Greek Attacks on the Borders of Turkey..
  5. ^ The patriot and the hero general Guyon on the battle fields of Hungary and Asia By Arthur Kinglake, Richard Debaufre Guyon
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