And there was a battle called Plevna that went on and on with varying fortunes for what seemed like a great part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toys of Peace, and other papers] Reference

Plevna (July 20 -- Dec. 10, 1877), under Osman Pasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

It looked as if Russia were up against a second Plevna or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

Rorkes drift and Plevna and sir Garnet Wolseley and Gordon at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The reverses of the Russians at Plevna (July 20 ff.) eased the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [1877, Jan. 18] Reference

We were quartered at Tashkesen shortly after our enforced retreat from Plevna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

The Russians rejected active help until they were hard-pressed at the siege of Plevna.    From Wordnik.com.  [1866-1914] Reference

One British gentlemen we had with us during the siege of Plevna was a perpetual source of joy to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

There was not one among them who did not gaze on the hero of Plevna with the greatest admiration and sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

King Carol has never admitted that the diminution of his kingdom after Plevna was a right thing, and the toasts in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

On the march to Plevna, for example, I saw two high military dignitaries chastised in the presence of their fellow-officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

He was on his way to St. Petersburg to receive the congratulations of his subjects, having left Plevna behind him, 'full of horrors.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

Plevna in the seventies, or of Port Arthur a few years since.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference

The siege of Plevna, in particular, had left bitter memories behind it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference

It looked as if Russia were up against a second Plevna or a new Gallipoli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

Immediately after the fall of Plevna the Porte had applied to the European.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

The fall of Plevna in the previous December, and the subsequent collapse of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.] Reference

Then came the capture of Nikopolis, the repulse at Plevna, the battle of Shipka.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Russia] Reference

When Plevna fell, our hero was in the van during the mad rush toward the Bosphorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891] Reference

Meanwhile Osman, with his brave but worn-out band, made his last sortie from Plevna.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

The earthworks of Plevna, vicious as they were in many characteristics, they found impregnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

The Grand Duke now sent reinforcements to Krudener, and ordered him to take Plevna at all costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

"This is a trick I learned from the Russians after Plevna; they had my little finger, so I deserved something in exchange.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference

So highly was he thought of there that when, after the unsuccessful attempt on Plevna in the September of the war, the Guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

Constantinople when once Plevna should have fallen and the army which besieged it should be added to the invader's strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

After the second battle of Plevna it became clear that the Russians could not carry on the campaign with their existing forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

The Balkans, whose gateways Plevna had closed, now lay open before them, but winter was at hand, winter with its frosts and snows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference