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THE BLOCKADE OF PLEVNA. 
About 10 a.m. the 2nd Brigade arrived to take part in the battle. 
At the same time the news was received that the 8th (Moscow) and 7th 
(Samogitian) Grenadiers of the 2nd Grenadier Division had come up to 
support the 3rd Division. The arrival of these reinforcements assured 
to us the successful termination of the struggle, and completely pre¬ 
vented the enemy from overcoming the resistance opposed to him. At 
10.30 a.m. the thundering “Hurrahs!which broke forth announced the 
attack of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Grenadier Division, on our trenches 
which had been occupied by the enemy. Having driven the Turks 
from both lunettes, the Astrakhan and Fanagorian men, supported by 
the Siberians and Little Russians, advanced quickly to the attack, and, 
disregarding their losses caused by the feu d’enfer of the enemy, they 
drove the Turks out of the trenches with the bayonet. Our guns 
which had remained in the hands of the enemy were retaken, and the 
Astrakhan regiment also took seven Turkish guns and a colour. 
Two battalions of the 18th (Vologda) regiment, which had moved 
early to the left flank lunette and were near the trenches of the position 
of the grenadiers, executed a flank attack on the enemy, in which they 
were supported by the fire of the Roumanian batteries. 
Simultaneously with the attack of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Grenadier 
Division, the 7th (Samogitian) Grenadier Regiment arrived on the 
battle-field at 10.45 a.m., led by the commander of the 2nd Grenadier 
Division, Major-General Svetchinim, in the interval between Gorni and 
Dolni Netropol. The 3rd Battalion of this regiment found a part of 
the lodgments of the 3rd Grenadier Division occupied by the enemy. 
Advancing with the bayonet, the Samogitians drove the Turks out of 
the lodgments without firing a shot, and having forced the intact 
bodies of Turkish troops to retreat, they took three guns. 
Having occupied once more the advanced lodgments, our troops 
paused for a moment. It was about noon when the Turks began to 
retire slowly to the river Vid, covered, however, by a powerful fire. The 
guns taken from the enemy, which had not yet been rendered useless 
by him, were turned against the Turks by our infantry. At the same 
time, all the batteries of the 3rd Grenadier Artillery Brigade were 
pushed forwards, and, having taken up a position in alignment with the 
infantry, they opened on the retiring Turks with shrapnel. The retreat 
of the enemy gradually assumed the character of a rout. Thick dis¬ 
ordered crowds of Turks poured towards the bridge, and got mixed up 
with the train wagons, covering with their heavy masses the ground 
about the high road. In the face of the complete defeat of the Turkish 
army, and the terrible loss inflicted upon it, Osman Pasha could no 
longer think of prolonged resistance, all the more as the troops of the 
other sectors of the investing line had advanced to the attack. Besides, 
the expected arrival of the 16th Division and the participation in the 
defence by the brigade of the 3rd Guard Division, which was coming 
up, completely assured to us the final defeat of the enemy. 
Soon the troops along the whole line advanced to the attack. The 
division of General Daniloff moved forwards, supported on its left flank 
by the defenders of Gorni Netropol, the 1st Brigade, 5th Division, and 
on the right by the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Grenadier Division. The 1st 
