Excerpt from The War in the East: From the Year 1853 Till July 1855; An Historico-Critical Sketch of the Campaigns on the Danube, in Asia, and in the Crimea With a Glance at the Probable Contingencies of the Next Campaign
Divan refused to submit to such insulting proposals, whereupon the occupation of the Principalities by the Russians ensued A warlike demonstration was now to extort from the Porte what Mentschikoff"s menaces and diplomatic intrigues had failed to accomplish; but in this Russia was utterly mistaken, for the Turks, instead of giving up their political independence without a struggle, resolved to face the aggressors, and, after having repeatedly summoned them to evacuate their territory, they at length declared war.
The Russian troops which crossed the Pruth in July, 1853, together with their reserve in Bessarabia, were the fourth and part of the fifth army corps, and consisted of 70,000 men. With such inferior forces, insufficient even for a successful defence of the Principalities, it was evident that, for the moment at any rate, Russia had no other object in view, but the intimidation of the "sick man."
Prince Gortschakoff, commander-in-chief of the army of occupation, considering an attack on the part of the Turks as beyond the limits of possibility, dispersed his troops in the most unaccountable manner throughout Wallachia, from Kalafat to Galatz, in no place retaining a considerable force, and himself taking up his quarters at Bucharest with as much indifference as if it had been in time of peace.
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