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FGREIG.Y LYJ'ELUGEACE.Jim-. \ I tb.—Surrender Lakbcha to the I July 1 -13-19.—The principal obstn-. Russians, together with 8? pieces of] cles overcome, and 10 cannon, 14From .\7Vv Regisi. r*SIEGES OF CONSTANTINOPLEThe celebrated metropolis the Ah- \ nf _ t f hn-a,or blooming maiden ofthe G reeks j and the Umduajiu or mother of the; universe, as styled by the Turks,! *us fy i.as been visited with the horrors of ^oun ^ •The subse-.J“c ^ .... , lt;KRussians, on condition oi the gam* son being permitted to retire to Sil-istra: 273 cannon, 612,000 lbs. ofpow-cannon, 17 stands of colors, and a large quantity of ammunition.-In attemping to carry Brailow by storm, the Russians lost 640 men kilted, including Major Generals Wolf and Timoth, and 1340i-ine and twenty sieges ♦ pient enumeration of their successive occurrence cannot fail to possess some-rhlng more than transient interest in vhe eves of our readers.B. C. 477. Besieged by Pausanias,a ite r the battle of Pleatea. By A lei hiades, in the be-)ginning of the fifth cent. I«— * »an* o. 4 20 or 4! 1.Brailow surrenders to the410.der* and an immense quantity of balls, were taken.June 23.—Surrender of Anapa (Asiatic Turkey) with 85 pieces of cannon, and a large quantity of ammunition. Trie garrison consisted of3000 men.L.347197Bv Leo. Philip's general. ■ Jn!V 2d.-PreviouS io this date, the• ■ C* L/ 11 l' i r\ K a /I * n I * ^ t a n iM/ini1' Art313315616By the emperor Septimus Serverus.Bv Maximus Caesar.Bv Constantine the great. | By Chrosroes of Persia,r under Heraclius, emper-j ror of the east.Russians had taken seven fortresses, viz. Brailow, Matschin, Toultscha, Hirsovn, Kustendji, Keuzgon, and Managalia, besides Anapa, on the coast of Asia. Toultscha was gar. risoncd by nearly 2000 men, and had 91 cannon on the ramparts.62G Bv the CharnnoftheAv- iJu(vl5th -The fortress of Kars (AsI656aii, an ally of Chros-! 7 •roe«.By Moawia, the general of Ali, an Arab sovereign*669 Bv lesid, a son of Moa-’ , ' . k;.. • July 2?,Turk.) taken by storm.The gasrison, it is said amounted to .11,000 men, 2000 of whom were killed, and 1500 made prisoners, including a Pacha of two Tails: 151 pieces of cannon were taken.standards, with nearly 400 prisoners taken from the Turks, who also had mam killed.July 2i—In descending the Balkant thelussians encountered a Turkish divmoii of 6000 or 7000 men under the Saraskier Abdu al Rahman, and defeated them, taking two batteries of four guns each, and three or four pieces of cannon, 400 prisoners, and seven standard?.July 23.—Capture of Mesembria, with 20 standards, 15 cannon, and 2000 j prisoners. Same day, Aehioh was captured, contaning 14 pieces of cannon, two powder magaziues, c.July 24.—Capture ofBourgas. containing ten pieces of cannon, and abundance of military stores.July 25.—Capture of Adois, with the whole Turkish camp: 600 tents, 500 barrels powder, four standards, four cannon, a great quantity of small arms, and 220 prisoners.August 20.—Adrianople surrendered to ihe Russia!is.August 31.—Capture of Slivno.w i a.564IDy 2!,—Silistria invested by theBv Sofian Ben Auf,one of a Kupsiam.Moawia’s eonc*!*. i 7£“ ? th° 'g £U?Wfg Jday, the Russian flotilla before V ar-na made an attack upon that of the*•* 1 «Mi764By two sons of Calph Mer-wan, when Anthemiosjwas emperor. j ,Bv Sol v man,a son of Calph- \AurVsi Xbdolmeb k i Constantinople for the Army.Bv Paganos., the krai 22.^rhe fortress of Ardag-the Bulgarians, under hane (As. Turk.) surrendered to theRussians.New*Orlrass% Oct. 50.The health of ibe city being restored, we may snortly expect a revival of business. had the return of those who have absented themselves oo voyages of pleasure or profit. in looking forward to the hnminting scenes which await us. we cannot tor beat to i evert to that gloomy period, through which we have just passed, ana while congratulatingTurks,and captured fourteen rcsscls# j with those who have escaped its rava-The Grand Vizier left I ges, to pay the tribute of sorrow to those798811820886915!048108112041261Constantine V.By Harum-al-Raschid, un-under Leo. IV#By Abdolmelek, a generalof Hamm-al-Raschid.By Krumus, the deposit of the Slavonian*.By Thomas the Slavonian under Machael the Stammerer.By the Russians, under Ascotd and Dir.By Simeon, krai of the Bulgarians.By Tornicious the rebel, under Michael Monomachos.Bv Alexius Comenu** onGood Friday.By the crusaders on the 12th of April.By Michael Palaeologus,on the 25th of July.By Razajet, the lighting flash. The first Ottoman siege.By the same.By Musa, a son of Baz-ajet.By A mu rath II, a son of Mahomet i.80th May. By Mahomet U the conqueror of Constantinople,against whose victorious host, Phranzatells us. Constantine Drngoies, Palaeo-gus, the la«** Greek emperor, rushed :brth,exclaiming, *1 would rather die than livef’ mi i shortly aflcrwards, perceiving himself deserted by his recreant follower-, and crying aloud, “Isthere no Christian hand to smite off my aching headf ’ met a glorious death, though doomed to fall by the cymctar of an intiiiel.apture of Achachil and Top ll-v controlled ^ medical experience/a a* i ' iu- research, it cannot be deuicd, if.(A* Turk.; together t.,th;jjhe dlgease bc ol loCai origin, a .peed,nnv/ia. and cori»r3i TnAilc^rKn ° ■ *139G140214141453August 25.—News arrived at Odessa; of the captusachale34 standards, and several thousand prisoners.September 26.—The Seraskierof Tfid-din having crossed the Danube near Kalefat, and being on ine advance, was attacked by general Geismar, and after an obstinate engagementwas compelled to retreat. Hi lossis represented to have been v »ry severe. Same day a manifesto was issued from St. Petersburgh, ordering a new levy of four men in every 500 of the population*October 7. Varna called by assault. Garrison, including the afmed inhabitants, supposed to have amoant-elt;f originally to 22,000 men. When captured, was reduced to 6000.This was oneoftiic most importantfortresses of the Turks, and its cap-whe iell beneath tnein. The recurrence of this sad evii is so much a subject of dread and painful anxiety, even I to the acclimated, that a ts hoped it may hereafter be sensibly diminished, if notrecourse to improvements, together with 1 vigiieuce anu precaution on those who’ umuagfc our ctiy c«;ocer(#s, may prevent«’ its recurrence, vi greatly abate, itsvi-i cious piopeuies. For two su:ce*sit# seasons, that detestable scourge has hung over our city, ami with its poisonous b'eutu consigned to the tomo many of oar edum rklued citizens. We do notsay urnt it was provoked by negiigeuce jor loatieuUoci io those who migiit ha»e| aLUaipieu n» keep it aloof; but thus much we ao ?ay, tlidt no city la the Union is more capable of cousdaiu irrigation than tuis; aud pray, where, during the sultry montils of summer, has that been resorted to. it is true, when the river is a hove the level of me city, water may be easily conducted into u without the aidof ingenuity or machinery, but when theriver is low, we are without that re-ture secured to the Russians a per- j fluid, except now and then tan-manent footing on the western coasL ^ ltie llie city wa-nf m*o\, Thp PmnprAr. in-j terworkv,wlio«e ephemei ;u power is soonexpended. Let us h-qe for betterthings tue succeeding season, and thatPRINCIPAL events of ihe, war betweenthe lurlc^ and Russians; a brief recapitulation which will inform the ignorant and ref rah the memory of the informed; an d nw\ sin ad for a history of the tear, as H seems to be. over.The Declaration of war by Russia,was issued on the 261 h of April, 1028. In that document the Emperor declares that he will not lay down his arms till he has obtained ihe results which it forth, viz: all the expenses andio.-ses occasioned by the war defrayed by Turkey; past treaties acknowledged and enforced; inviolable liberty' to ihe commerce of the Black Sea, andme free navigation of the Bosphorus;and, finally, the fulfilment of the convention of July 6th, for the pacification of Greece. Present prospects indicate that he will be able to enforce these conditions. The principal e-vents of the wan so far as we have been able to collect them, are brieflyas follows:Mrj 7th, 1828.—Campaign commenced.Jun- 8th,.—Passage of the Danube.* ,and capture of Satounowa, with 12pieces of cannon.June 9th.—Engagement beet ween the Russian nod Turkish flotillas near Brailow'; tl,e former consisting of 17 vo-ela of different rizcs and thelatter of 32. Of inis number,26w o taken,su ik, burnt,or stranded, i.7 .;ne day, n Turkish flotiilj, witha.*:n3. an:.riuaition, .c. was captur-l 1 '/(T A»; ipa, on the Asiific coast; ? 2:J paixous and 6 stanlards wereta*cen.of the Black Sea. The Emperor, in a letter to the Count Diebitsch, of November 20, speaks of it as “that fortress which had never seen acon-querer.” From this date the active operation of the campaign may be considered as ended.October 15—Blockade of the Dardanelles officially announced by Admiral Hey den,Mireh 5th 1829.—A battle was fought near the river Natoncb, (As. Turk.) in which the Turks lost 1000 m u in killed and wounded, and the Russians about 200.March 20,—About this date Svzeboli was captured byr the Russians, and immediately fortified for apermanent position.April 1 1,—Three dctatchmcnts of Turkish troops cross the Danube into Little Wallachia, but are driven bark after suffering considerable loss.May 17.—Silistria again invested, after an engagement a bout two milesdistant, in which the Turks lost 400 men; and the Russians about 150. On the same day a battle was fought near Paravadi, the Turks being led on by the Grand Vizier in Person. Turkish loss in killed 2000; Russians killed 501, wounded, 627.June 1!.—Great battle near the village of Kulawtscha, not far from Choumia, in which the Grand Vizier commanded in person# In this engagement and the subsequent flight, the Turks lost 5900 killed agreat number of prisoners, 43 pieces of cannon, 6 standards, all the amu-nition wagons, baggage, c. and suffered a complete dispersion.June 20.—Surrender of Silistria to the Russian*. The garrison, consisting of 8,000 men, and the armed inhabitants, conisstingof 10,000, were made prisoners of war; and among them, two Three-Tailed Pachas, 250 pieces of cannon, and 100 stands of colors were taken.June 27.—Erzcrum captured by the Russians. Among the prisoners were the Seraskier and lour Pachas:150 cannon Verc taken, 29 of themat Hassan-Keal.our citizens mny i^mam at home aod enjoy iheir ease without the fear of pestilence, or the expense oi a distant voyage,—Auv.JJuly 10.—(*horus and Berhurst (As.Turkey.) occupied by I lie Russians. July 15.—Tw o divisions of the Russianarmy left Choumia to undertake the.passage of the Bajknn.
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