Did the Turks use Henrys?. If not why did they order 1000 2nd Model S & W Russians and 5000 3rd Model Russians in .44 Henry Rimfire?
The '66 was responsible for two great Turkish victories over the Russians at Plevna.
Battle of Plevna 1877.
In the year l877, in a small Balkan village called Plevne a handful of
soldiers of a bedraggled army of Turks stopped cold the enormous forces of the Czar of Russia. The Turks succeeded to hurl back the Russian attacks one after another. A keen student of the American Civil War, Osman Pasha decided to fortify his positions with earthen redoubts, a defensive tactic that had been greatly employed by the Confederacy during the Civil War.An hour before sunset, General Krudener finally was forced to call a Halt to the swiftly crumbling Russian offensive. At the end of the battle more than 8,000 Russians lay dead on the battlefield. It was a bad, bad day for the Russians. The brilliance of Osman Pasha's leadership, combined with the staunchness of his troops not only astonished Europe, but also helped dull the edge of anti-Turkish feeling that gripped the Christian countries.