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Age 18 appointed to First Turkestan Rifle Battalion 1868 wounded during conquest of Bokhara 1876 participated in campaign against Kokand in Central Asia 1877-87 served as Skoblev’s Chief of Staff in Turkish War, in which he was wounded 1880-81 led the Turkestan Rifle Brigade in the Akkal Tekke Expedition 1898 appointed to the post of Minister of War and negotiated with Japan prior to the Russo-Japanese War 1904 became Commander-in-Chief of the Manchurian army 1905 withdrew his forces from Mukden, which subsequently fell to the Japanese. Saw heavy losses of his troops 1905 was superseded in command by General Linevich, and subsequently acted as Commander of the First Army until the end of the war 1908 published The Russian Army and the Japanese War in four volumes 1910 published The Tasks of the Russian Army in three volumes 1915 appointed to command the Grenadier Corps during World War I 1916 Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front at Pskov, following General Plehve Late 1916 returned as Commander-in-Chief of the Turkestan Military District to suppress a rebellion 1917 arrested during the Revolution of 1917 but then freed by the Provisional Government. [Chronology (English)] Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin, 1845-1925. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print. Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41858. No known restrictions on publication. SJP-Photographs-Kuropatkin~01. [Portrait description] Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin, 1845-1925. General of the Russian Imperial Army during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Born 17.III.1845. Died 26.I.1925 in Shemshurino, Pskov district. [Biography (English)]
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