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THE BLOCKADE OF PLEVNA, 
Mahomet Tabia surrendered also. About noon, after a short action, the 
“ Sugar Loaf ” and the “ Black Redoubt ” were occupied, and, soon 
after, the redoubt behind them. In these works there were taken by 
the Guards one pasha, 120 staff and superior officers, and 3,634 men of 
lower rank, and four guns. The losses on our side were confined to 
3 killed and 15 wounded of the lower ranks. 
The Turks, pressed on all sides by the superior attacking forces, could 
no longer sustain the fight. They sent out parlementaries; and riding for 
this purpose to General Ganetski, the Chief of the Turkish Staff declared 
that Osman Pasha was wounded, and wished to know the terms of 
capitulation. General Ganetski requested an unconditional surrender 
of the whole army, and to receive the consent of Osman Pasha he 
personally advanced to meet his brave and resolute wounded enemy. 
On the memorable day of the 28th November there surrendered as 
prisoners 10 pashas, 128 staff officers, 2000 superior officers, and 40,000 
of inferior rank of the infantry and artillery, and 1200 of the cavalry. 
72 guns were taken, and a large amount of warlike stores—in particular, 
of small-arm cartridges. The losses suffered by the enemy in the last 
battle were reckoned at 6000 men. 
On our side the losses were as follows :—- 
Generals. Staff Superior Lower 
Officers. Officers. ranks. 
0 2 7 409 killed. 
1 3 47 1263 7 , , 
0 0 1 47 j wounded. 
Thus was overcome the resistance of the fortified camp of Plevna. 
By completely investing the town, by not running the least risk, and 
by constantly prohibiting a storm of the Turkish works, the required 
end was fully attained. The result was the surrender of 40,000 men 
of the best hostile army, and the occupation of a most important 
strategic point which closed the principal road of Western Bulgaria. 
During this time, our own troops were not only rested and reorganised, 
but the battalions were raised to their full strength, and made ready, in 
strength and spirits, for renewed exertions for the glory of the Russian 
arms. 
In conclusion, I wish to bring to the favourable notice of your 
Imperial Highness the services of the following officers :—The Chief of 
the Staff* of the Army, Lieut.-General Prince Imeretinski, who was my 
invaluable second in this troublesome operation which was crowned by 
the success of the 28th November; those who were Chiefs of Sectors 
of the investing line—viz., Lieut.-General Ganetski (to whom, with 
the Grenadier Corps, is due the honour of the last day of the blockade 
of Plevna ); Lieuts.-General Zotoff, Baron Kriidener, Katalei, and 
Skobeleff; the Commander of the Roumanian Corps, General Tchernat; 
the Director of the Artillery of the Attack, Major-General Moller ; and 
Major-General Reutlinger, who filled the functions of Commanding 
Engineer of the Army. 
Having been for two months a witness of all the deeds of the army 
before Plevna—of its steadiness, its bravery, its self-denial in constant 
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