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deadly rifle fire from all the houses. At the same time, the 1st
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hole in the roofs, throw in combustibles and set fire to the beams. Despite this, the murids remained for several hours in the house, sometimes they managed to break through their exits and hide through hidden messages from one sakli to another, but many bodies were found charred. For all their disadvantageous position, the highlanders managed to inflict a lot of harm on the troops. With swords and daggers, they fought back one by one until they died on bayonets, while some murids rushed at dozens of soldiers without any weapons. Only 15 people, suffocating inside one hut from smoke and hand grenades thrown there, agreed to surrender. Many soldiers died from their own negligence, rushing into the inside of the hut, there were no fewer casualties from the enemy, the streets were littered with corpses.
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onto the flat roofs of houses, from which the highlanders continued to shoot back. To our right, the same battle was in full swing in
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distance from the village, a round fortification was built in the form of a low tower with loopholes. The 4th battalion of the
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At dawn, on a signal, all three columns with drumming moved to storm. In the right column of
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desperately resisted, and they all died there. But then the offensive was halted by a deep ditch. Both
Absheron battalions suffered quite a big loss. The first day of the assault, despite the attempts of the Russian troops to break into the village before dark, was not crowned with success. The
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