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6th Column .—The right wing of this column under Colonel Fadeieff, 
of the 158th, advanced against the shelter-trenches and batteries 
between Hafiz and Karadagh, although taken in flank by the fire from 
the latter. The trenches were stormed and their garrisons pursued to 
Karadagh so closely that the Russians entered the fort with them, and 
after a short struggle made themselves masters of it, and repulsed a 
counter-attack from the Arab Tabia. After the batteries between 
Hafiz and Khanli had been taken by the right wing of the 5th Column, 
the left wing of the 6th succeeded in passing round to the right flank 
of Hafiz, and thence storming it, as the works had been battered 
into ruins by the siege guns. Shortly after 2 a.m., the Turkish reserves 
which had been posted between the forts and the town retired into the 
latter, and Colonel Baum took command of the 4th, 5th, and 
6th Columns, and several isolated detachments which had penetrated 
into the town. 
The 7th Column , which had engaged the attention of the Arab Tabia 
till the Karadagh was taken, now advanced against the former and 
stormed it with little difficulty. 
Towards 4 a.m. all the forts of the right bank were in the hands of 
the Russians, and finally the garrison of the citadel also surrendered 
before an attack on it was made. 
On the morning of the 18th, the Turks who had crossed over to the 
left bank made an attempt to break through the Russian lines to the west 
and north-west, but were repulsed by Generals Roop, Scheremetieff, 
and Schtcherbatoff, while the other columns crossed to the left bank 
and took them in rear. The whole garrison (5 Pashas and 17,000 men, 
with 303 guns) was now forced to capitulate; only a few detachments 
of cavalry had managed to escape. The Turks had lost 2500 men, and 
4500 sick and wounded were included in the 17,000 men. The Russian 
loss was relatively small—1 General, 17 officers, and 470 men killed; 
1 General, 58 officers, and 1726 men wounded. As it was impossible to 
find shelter for such a large number of sick and wounded, and to prevent 
epidemics, the seemingly severe plan of dismissing 3500 slightly 
wounded Turks to their homes had to be adopted. It may easily be 
imagined that a large number perished miserably. 
After the triumphal entry of the whole corps d’armee into Kars, it 
was broken up. Komaroff set out for Ardahan with a strong mixed 
brigade to protect the authorities who were organising the civil 
government of the district, and eventually to operate towards Batoum. 
His advanced guard reached Ardanutch on the 17th December, and 
till the end of the year he remained in the same positions. One 
division marched to Erzeroum to strengthen Heimann; the remainder 
of the corps constituted the garrison of Kars. 
(e) The Rebellion in the Caucasus. 
The insurrectional movement in the Terek and Daghestan districts 
gained strength steadily in September and October, and extended to 
Middle and Lower Daghestan, a part of Lesgia, and the Didojevza 
