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SERVICES OP TWO RUSSIAN MOUNTAIN BATTERIES. 
tion, and rises almost perpendicularly above the village of Shipka. 
The hills and ravines on both sides of it are practicable for infantry 
and Mountain Artillery, but only in parts for field guns. 
Grourko unfortunately had left his Mountain guns at Hainkioi, so 
had to make his attack with infantry alone, it being impossible to 
utilise the Horse Artillery from the impracticability of the approaches 
to the Turkish position. After brilliant efforts on the part of the 
Russian infantry, the attack failed with great loss, but luckily on the 
night of the 18th the Turks, having no provisions with them, retired, 
and the Shipka was left in the hands of the Russians, to remain in 
their possession till the conclusion of the war. The Mountain Bat¬ 
teries were now concentrated at Kazanlyk, a half battery taking part 
in some further operations in the Tundja Valley against Suleiman 
Pasha. 
G-ourko had, however, to withdraw from the little Balkans, and the 
1st Mountain Battery was posted in the Hainkioi. Pass, and the six 
guns of the 2nd Battery in the Shipka, in the beginning of August. 
Mountain Battery Bivouac in Gourko’s March. 
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Guns (shafts attached). 
Ammunition. 
Spare material , tyc. 
Gunners and Drivers. 
Harness, tyc. 
Battery horse lines. 
Commanding Officer's and Captain's 
tents and pay chest with Sentry. 
Officers' tents d'abris. 
Non-Combatants. 
Train. 
Train horses. 
Borage. 
Train drivers. 
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This expedition of Gourko’s with an advanced guard of all arms 
was considered one of the most brilliant episodes of the war. It 
would seem to have been a mistake that the Horse Artillery was not 
sent through the Travna Pass, a defile between the Hainkioi Pass and 
the Shipka, and practicable for Horse Artillery excepting in the winter 
