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KUROPATKIN, ALEXEI NIKOLAIEVICH (1848– )

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KUROPATKIN, ALEXEI NIKOLAIEVICH (1848– ) , See also:Russian See also:general, was See also:born in 1848 and entered the See also:army in 1864. From 1872 to 1874 he studied at the See also:Nicholas See also:staff See also:college, after which he spent a See also:short See also:time with the See also:French troops in See also:Algiers. In 1875 he was employed in See also:diplomatic See also:work in Kashgaria and in 1876 he took See also:part in niilit_ary operations in Turkistan, Kokan and Samerkand. In the See also:war of 1877–78 against See also:Turkey he earned a See also:great reputation as See also:chief of staff to the younger Skobelev, and after the war he wrote a detailed and See also:critical See also:history of the operations which is still regarded as the classical work on the subject and is available for other nations in the See also:German See also:translation by See also:Major Krahmer. After the war he served again on the See also:south-eastern See also:borders in command of the See also:Turkestan See also:Rifle See also:Brigade, and in 1881 he won further fame by a See also:march of 500 See also:miles from See also:Tashkent to Geok-Tepe, taking part in the storming of the latter See also:place. In 1882 he was promoted major-general, at the See also:early See also:age of 34, and he henceforth was regarded by the army as the natural successor of Skobelev. In 1890 he was promoted See also:lieutenant-general, and thirteen years later, having acquired in See also:peace and war the reputation of being one of the foremost soldiers in See also:Europe, he quitted the See also:post of See also:minister of war which he then held and took command of the Russian army then gathering in See also:Manchuria for the contest with See also:Japan. His See also:ill-success in the great war of 1904-5, astonishing as it seemed at the time, was largely attributable to his subjection to the See also:superior command of See also:Admiral Alexeiev, the See also:tsar's See also:viceroy in the Far See also:East, and to See also:internal See also:friction amongst the generals, though in his history of the war (Eng. trans., 1909) he frankly admitted his own mistakes and paid the highest See also:tribute to the gallantry of the troops who had been committed to See also:battle under conditions unfavourable to success. After the defeat of See also:Mukden and the retirement of the whole army to Tieling he resigned the command to General Linievich, taking the latter officer's place at the See also:head of one of the three armies in Manchuria.

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