2-981-920 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in the Herzegovina, 1876. The fortress of Goransko, the village of Piva, and the battle-field of Muratovitza from sketches '...by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior...bands of insurgents...under Peko and Socica attacked the Turks at Muratovitza while returning from Goransko. The Turks were routed...losing above 800 men, horses, ammunition, 675 rifles, and four rifled cannon. It is said that the Turks were above 3000, and the insurgents only 1500. This is the account given by Peko Paulovitch, the commander of the insurgents, who adds that the Turkish force was entirely dispersed, and that only 700 Turks returned to Gatschko. A very different version of the affair is presented in the Turkish official despatch:..."Turkish losses are estimated at sixty killed and fifty-four wounded. It has been ascertained that the losses on the side of the insurgents were much more considerable".' From "Illustrated London News", 1876.