The losses were certainly not less than 10,000 men, not counting the irregulars.

Walter Gordon went into the box for the regular team, and he expected to fool the irregulars with ease.

The sultan, in an evil hour, for lack of trained troops, let loose irregulars on the villages, and the Bulgarian atrocities, which they committed in 1875, sowed a fatal harvest for his successor to reap.

The regulars formed on the ridge, intrenched themselves, and sent the irregulars, Albanians of the tribe of the Mirdites, down to lead the attack.