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THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY (PART II.) 
district. The number of fighting men was stated to be 175,000, but 
happily they never were conscious of their full strength, nor could they 
ever agree upon simultaneous action. The insurrection was at its 
height in the end of November and the beginning of December, and 
completely absorbed the available troops of the 20th and 21st Divisions. 
By the end of the year the movement was crushed, but by no means 
extinguished. 
At the end of the year, therefore, the Russian plan of campaign had 
completely succeeded, and as the military power of Turkey seemed 
utterly broken, it was idle to expect reinforcements for the few troops 
in the field before Batoum, or those shut up in Erzeroum, and the fall 
of those places became only a question of time. 
