malaxa

Updated: May 23, 2025

I remember at the capture of Malaxa in Crete that three insurgents were hurled to the ground by the air pressure of a Turkish shell which passed within a yard or two of their heads. Several of our cases on this downward journey were interesting.

Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett - With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train

The Russian bombardments of Plevna were quite futile, and General Todleben acknowledged that it sometimes required a whole day's shell fire to kill a single Turkish soldier. At the fight round the Malaxa blockhouse in Crete, at which I was present, the united squadrons of the European powers in Suda Bay suddenly opened fire on the hill and the village at its foot.

Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett - With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train