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By that time, Russia and Britain were political rivals. So the quote is hardly the testimony of a disinterested, unbiased witness. A claim as ridiculuous as that not a single house was standing in Bulgaria anymore is propaganda, even when it is delivered as hearsay. -- [[User:Zickzack|Zz]] ([[User talk:Zickzack|talk]]) 16:12, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Slade actually served in the Ottoman navy, so he is biased. His book discusses in great detail the movements of Russian troops, and clearly states that they went only a relatively short distance inland from the Black sea coast (Svilen, Shumen, Pravodi etc.). Bulgaria did not exist as an independent country then, but as far as I can tell, people at the time would have understood "Bulgaria" to mean the territory of modern day Bulgaria plus modern day Macedonia and quite a lot of adjoining territories too, so I don't quite know what to make of his claim that not a house was standing in Bulgaria. It's pretty strange. Either his grasp of geography was very limited, or he was trusting to the ignorance of his readers.
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