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General Roop commanded the left wing and reserve, and Loris- 
Melikoff the whole of the above-mentioned troops. The Grand 
Duke Michael commanded the whole Alexandropol Column, including 
LazarefFs detachment. 
6.30 a.m. was named as the time for the commencement of the 
operations. 
Right Wing .—The 2nd Caucasus Grenadier Brigade (Schack) on the 
Great Yagni, with its artillery, covered the right from attacks from 
Kars and the Little Yagni. At 9 a.m. eight batteries were in position 
against the Avlijar, which after a hard fight had advanced to within 
the range of case by 10 a.m. On the right the 13th Grenadiers, in 
the centre the 151st Regiment, and on the left the 14th Grenadiers, 
now formed for the attack. Before the advance began, seven Turkish 
battalions made a determined attack from Yezinkoi on the l/13th 
Grenadiers, on the right flank ; the battalion, however, was supported • 
by the 1st Rifle and 1st Sapper Battalions, and by the help of the 
guns on the Little Yagni, the attack was repulsed, and the troops 
immediately advanced (12 noon) to storm the position. The Turks 
were driven back on Orluk and Yezinkoi, leaving three guns in the 
hands of the Russians. Heimann followed them up with a battalion 
of the 3rd (sent by Grabbe) and the 4th Grenadier Regiment. 
Lazareff J s Column .—Before Heimann advanced to storm the Yezinkoi 
Heights, Lazareff, from the south, had captured them with* the 
154th, two battalions of the 153rd, and two of the 75th Regiment, so 
that both columns joined hands here. The Turks retired in wild con¬ 
fusion to the village of Yezinkoi, and many prisoners were made by 
the 16th Dragoons. Closely following the dragoons, the 154th 
Regiment stormed the village of Yezinkoi, so that the 13th and 14th 
Grenadiers were enabled to surround the heights of Tchift Tepe, while 
Lazareff sent back a part of his troops to push up closer to the rear 
slopes of the Aladja Dagh, which General Roop had not yet captured. 
The latter had not at first been able to make a frontal attack with his 
infantry; but after he had brought up a sufficiently powerful mass of 
artillery, and prepared the way by its fire, he sent forward the 
1st Grenadiers on the right, the 156th in the centre, and the 152nd on 
the left, while his cavalry tried to cut off the retreat of the enemy. 
The Turks did not wait for the attack; part fled towards the southern 
slopes and part surrendered, but those who fled from Roop^s troops 
fell into the hands of those of Heimann and Lazareff, who had 
gradually narrowed the circle round the Tchift Tepe and northern 
Orluk positions. The Turkish retreat from Yezinkoi to Kars was 
barred by Loris-MelikofFs cavalry, and that from the Little Yagni by 
Prince Tcherbatoff, while from the front Prince Wittgenstein pressed 
on. Those Turks who had not succeeded in escaping through the 
gaps in the Russian lines towards the south and south-west, now saw 
themselves surrounded on all sides, so at first the Turkish leaders sur¬ 
rendered to the Russian troops standing opposite them, and finally, 
in the evening, Omer Pasha, the Commander-in-Chief, capitulated. 
Seven Pashas, with seven thousand men, capitulated, while Mukhtar 
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