ABSTRACT

A l it t l e later Rosen and Veliameenoff set out from Nazrân with 9000 men and 28 guns to harry all lower Tchetchnia. Tornau, who accompanied the expedition, has left us the following description-the best extant-of forest campaign­ ing in those days, from which it is easy to see how dan­ gerous it was, and how much would necessarily depend on the officer in command.1