Battle of Kurekdere
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The Battle of Kurekdere took place in 1854 as part of the Crimean War
Crimean War
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. It started when the Ottoman
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 army of Kars
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 marched towards Gyumri
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 to attack the Russian force, already weakened with detachments. The battle was related with great spirit and the defeat of the Ottoman army by the Russia
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n forces.

In accounting the Russia
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ns for the defeat of an army nearly 40,000 Ottoman forces of all arms by a hostile force of less than one-half that number, it is not sufficient to say that the management of the whole battle on the side of the Turks was a series of blunders from the first to last, strategical errors might have protracted the mission and have added to the cost of a victory. Four months after the battle of Kurekdere no military operations took place. Some Europe
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an officers there were strongly advised a forward movement on Tiflis.
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