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Updated: May 18, 2025
Gallant as is the infantry it cannot win much ground faced by conditions such as the Light Brigade met at Balaclava. ERMENIKIOI, November 19. Operations have been suspended. Yesterday's cold and bitter weather has fanned to an epidemic the choleraic dysentery which had been creeping through the trenches. The casualties in the fighting had been heavy.
Between Silivri and Ermenikioi, travelling with a fine equipment for the time being a cart and two good horses and a full supply of food, purchased at Tchorlu and Silivri I was eating lunch by the roadside when four Bulgarian soldiers came up and with signs told me that they were starving, and asked for food.
Wounds they knew, and the pain of them they despised. They could not comprehend this disease which took away all the manhood of a stoic peasant, and made him weak in spirit as an ailing child. That night at Arjenli seemed to make a rough and sometimes perilous journey, which had extended over seven days, worth while. Arjenli is perched on a high hill, to the west of Ermenikioi.
Against those lines a Bulgarian attack was finally launched, but too late. The entrenched Turks were strong enough to withstand the attack of the Bulgarian forces. My diary of these three critical days of the campaign reads: ERMENIKIOI The battle of Chatalja has been opened.
Only once during the day was the infantry employed; and then it was rather to take the place of artillery than to complete the work begun by artillery. It seems to me that the Bulgarian forces have not enough big gun ammunition at the front. They are ten days from their base and shells must come up by ox-waggon the greater part of the way. ERMENIKIOI, November 18.
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