Kuropatkin
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General Alexei Nikolaevitch Kuropatkin, 76, famed commander of the main Russian army in the Russo-Japanese War, until the disaster of Mukden; at Shemshurino, Russian.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believed that the best foundation for Russia's supremacy lay in industrial development; Kuropatkin trusted in the sword.
From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Vay, P?ter
Yalu, Liao Yang and Mukden were won in the Russo-Japanese war by flanking movements which forced Kuropatkin to retire, though never disastrously.
From My Second Year of the War by Palmer, Frederick
Were Kuropatkin able to fulfill his rash threat of invading Japan, the nation would probably rise as one man.
From The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories by Hearn, Lafcadio
There were a million men, well equipped and abundantly supplied, under General Linevitch, who succeeded General Kuropatkin as Commander-in-Chief; and he was about to take the offensive when peace was declared.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
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