Selim Pacha Muschir, Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Army of Batoum, 1854. Creator: Unknown

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Selim Pacha Muschir, Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Army of Batoum, 1854. Creator: Unknown

Selim Pacha Muschir, Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Army of Batoum, in Asia Minor, 1854. Selim Pacha Muschir...is an officer of much distinction in the Turkish service; he is a hale old gentleman of perhaps sixty-three or four. He began life as a simple soldier, was a lieutenant at the period of the murder of the Janissaries, since which period has has been constantly employed against a foreign enemy, such as the Russians, in 1828 and 1829; the Egyptians, and against internal rebels. In 1840 he served with great distinction at Acre and on the Lebanon, and has gained all his successive steps by actual service. In November or December, at the head of 3000 men, he captured Chefketil (near Nikolai), and has since bravely beaten off the Russian attacks (three of these attacks were by sea, and on one occasion he says that he sunk a steamer and a frigate'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

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