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In his "Recollections" Mr. David Christie Murray relates how, when dining at the Hotel Misseri, in Constantinople, at the time of the Russo Turkish War, he witnessed a meeting between a French officer, Captain Tiburce Morisot, and Archibald Campbell afterwards known as "Schipka" Campbell.
His son, the Grand Duke Nicholas, jun., in 1877 scarcely of age, was nevertheless a keen practical soldier, imbued with the wisdom of getting to close quarters and staying there. He was among the first to cross the Danube at Sistova under the Turkish fire, and he fought with great gallantry under Mirsky in the Schipka Pass.
Poor Schipka Campbell put him under examination one evening at a brasserie in the Grande Rue, and elicited the fact that he supposed port and starboard to mean the same thing, and larboard to be the antithesis of the two.
Schipka Campbell, who had not then earned the title by which he was afterwards so widely known, was there, and he took command of the party. We were all armed, but though we displayed our weapons for the intimidation of the mob we were gravely cautioned not to fire a shot on peril of our lives.
He came to be known as "Schipka" Campbell on account of some daring deed connected with the defense of the Schipka Pass, when he was under the Command of the traitorous Suleiman Pasha. Archibald Campbell's brother Alister was another guest, also the former's partner, Reginald Fairlie, who subsequently became a painter, and was the hero of a very sad and exceedingly dramatic romance.
He outlines the development of the New German Empire from the war against Napoleon down to the days of Bismarck and Wilhelm II, and shows how the Russian general Skobeleff, the hero of Plevna and the Schipka Pass, foretold over thirty years ago the present death-struggle between Teuton and Slav in Eastern Europe.
My claim a disappointment Good results attained elsewhere A surprised Boer "Kopje wallopers" Thunderstorms A shocking spectacle "Old Moore" and his love affair The morning market Attack of enteric I go to King William's Town to recruit Toby once more A venture in onions Return to Kimberley The West End mess The Rhodes brothers Norman Garstin H. C. Seppings Wright "Schipka" Campbell Cecil John Rhodes A game of euchre The church bell Raw natives Alum diamonds Herbert Rhodes and the cannon His terrible end.
He explained the abnormal appearance of the jaw from the Moravian cave of Schipka as a result of the retention of teeth, accompanied by directly “antipithecoid” characters. The proceedings at the meetings of the Ethnological Society in 1895, at which Dubois was present, had an almost dramatic character.
Even in Russia, then its bitter enemy, this principle quickened the ardour of Pan-Slavism, which the war of 1878 the Schipka Pass, Plevna, the dazzling heroism of Skobeleff has made memorable. In the triumph of this same principle lies the future hope of Spain.
But in all this time I never heard a shot fired, so far as I can remember, until I came to the Schipka, where a long-drawn artillery duel was dragging on in the pass between the guns of Sulie-man Pasha and General Gourko. Correspondents and doctors lived at that time, for the most part, at a respectful distance from the scene of that monotonous action.
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