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the garrison and inhabitants of Kars remained unshaken; they 
strengthened the east front with all the means at their disposal, 
constructed batteries and shelter-trenches between the forts, and, being 
provisioned for six months, resolved to hold out. The hardships of a 
siege in the winter months, the extraordinarily unfavourable character 
of the soil for approaches, &c., and the wish to set the troops free for 
further operations,, especially against Batoum and in the interior of the 
Caucasus, where the peace of the Terek and Daghestan provinces was 
continually being disturbed—all these causes induced the Grand Duke 
to order the storming of the place, which appeared to offer chances of 
success if the fire of the forts were first weakened, and if it could be 
carried out on a moonlight night when there was only sufficient light 
to show the columns their way and prevent disorder. The night from 
the 17th to the 18th November was designated for the storming, and 
the troops told off into columns as follows :— 
Left Bccnlc. 
Lieut.-General Roop. 
1st Column. 
Colonel Tscheremissinoff. 
2% battalions 4th Grenadiers. 
2 battalions 76th Regiment. 
3 9-pr. batteries on the heights of 
Komkh and Djavra. 
Demonstration against Muchlis and 
Laz Tepessi. 
2nd Column. 
Major-General Komar off. 
2nd Grenadiers. 
3 battalions 151st Regiment. 
2 batteries; 
Demonstration against Techmas. 
Storming of Tschim. 
Bight Bank. 
Lieut.-General Lazareff. 
Major-General Count Grabbe. 
5th Column. 
3rd Column. 
Lt.-Col. Prince Melikoff. 
2 battalions 76th Regiment. 
4th Rifle Battalion. 
Storming of Suwari, and sup¬ 
port of the 2nd Column in 
the attack on Tschim. 
4:lh Column. 
3rd Grenadiers. 
1st Battalion 75th Regiment. 
1st Rifle Battalion. 
1 battery. 
Colonel Bojdakim. 
3Jbattalions 75th Regiment. 
2 battalions 157th Regiment. 
1 battery. 
To storm Khanli. 
6th Column. 
Major-General Alchasoff. 
2 battalions 152nd Regiment. 
158th Regiment. 
1 battery. 
Storming of Hafiz. 
7th CoUmn. 
Major-General Schatiloff. 
2 battalions 159th Regiment. 
160th Regiment. 
3 batteries. 
Demonstration against Kara- 
dagh and Arab. 
Special Be serve. 
2 battalions 152nd Regiment. 
1 battery. 
General Beserve for both Banks. 
Maj.-Gcn. Prince Tschavtchavatze. 
2nd Volga, 6th Orenburg Cossacks. 
3rd Daghestan, Tionetian Cavalry. 
14th Don Cossack Battery. 
On the Erzeroum high-road, on the 
Kars Tchai Bridge at Kutschukkoi, 
right bank. 
Major-General Dehn. 
1st Grenadiers. 
^ 17th Dragoons. 
3 batteries. 
At Komatsor, behind Tschavtchavatze’s 
division. 
