About thirty thousand Turks in the Caucasian…

November 1853 CE

About thirty thousand Turks in the Caucasian south had slowly moved east to the main Russian concentration at Gyumri or Alexandropol in November.

They have crossed the border and set up artillery south of the town.

Prince Ellico Orbeliani tries to drive them off and finds himself trapped.

The Turks fail to press their advantage; the remaining Russians rescue Orbeliani and the Turks retire west.

Orbeliani loses about one thousand men out of five thousand.

The Russians now decided to advance.

The Turks take up a strong position on the Kars road and attack.

They are defeated in the Battle of Başgedikler, losing six thousand men, half their artillery and all their supply train.

The Russians lose thirteen hundred me, including Prince Orbeliani, whose wife will later be kidnapped by Imam Shamil at Tsinandali.

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