Kalafat, which, we are told, the Turks have commenced to bombard, is a name familiar to most Englishmen who can carry their memories back as far as November, 1853. It was there that the first collision between the Russian and Turkish forces in the war, afterwards to be known as the Crimean war, took place. Omar Pasha brought a detachment there across the Danube from Widen, entrenched himself there and held the lines against all the force that Prince Gorfcschakoff could send against him. The intelligence that the bombardment of the place has been commenced sounds as if an operation of a systematic character had at last been undertaken. The Russian assaults on Kars said to have been repulsed must have referred to skirmishes in the neighborhood of the place. It would be quite contrary to the principles of modern warfare to make an attack by means of scaling ladders, &c, on a fortress of its size and strength.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3904, 12 May 1877, Page 2
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