mahomet-hadshi-jaf

Updated: September 8, 2025

Then of the thirty, some precipitated themselves headlong from the top of the tower; others fell fighting; Mahomet-Hadshi-Jaf, the same who had betrayed the conspirators, being sorely wounded was taken captive; only one escaped, as if by miracle it was Schamyl. Such were the leaders under whom Schamyl served his apprenticeship in the art of war.

J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie - Life of Schamyl: And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia