Valor The Fabled ‘Shipka’
Oct 29, 2019
2 minutes
By Frank Jastrzembski
Maj. Alastair Campbell
Ottoman army
Medjidie Order
Shipka Pass, Bulgaria
Sept. 17, 1877
By mid-September 1877 opposing armies had spent eight weeks locked in a gruesome slugfest for control of a Bulgarian pass providing a direct route to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). Mount St. Nicholas loomed above the other three main crests overlooking Shipka Pass, making
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