[129] Hertslet, vol. iv. p. 2625.
[130] The Campaign in Bulgaria, by F.V. Greene, pt. ii. ch. i.; W.V. Herbert, The Defence of Plevna, chaps, i.-ii.
[131] Aus drei Kriegen, by Gen. von Lignitz, p. 99.
[132] With the Russians in War and Peace, by Colonel F.A. Wellesley (1905), ch. xvii.
[133] Hertslet, vol. iv. p. 2577.
[134] Reminiscences of the King of Roumania, edited by S. Whitman (1899), pp. 269, 274.
[135] Farcy, La Guerre sur le Danube, p. 73. For other malpractices see Colonel F.A. Wellesley's With the Russians in Peace and War, chs. xi. xii.
[136] Punch hit off the situation by thus parodying the well-known line of Horace: "Russicus expectat dum defluat amnis."
[137] Quoted from a report by an eye-witness, by "O.K." (Madame Novikoff), Skobeleff and the Slavonic Cause, p. 38. The crossing was planned by the Grand Duke Nicholas; see von Lignitz, Aus drei Kriegen, p. 149.
[138] F.V. Green, Sketches of Army Life in Russia, p. 142.