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Record W4390476483

Military Observations of a British Officer on Erzurum-Kars-Ardahan Trip on the Eve of the "93 War" and the Implications of These Observations

2023· article· en· W4390476483 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDergiPark (Istanbul University) · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicOttoman and Turkish Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOfficerAncient historyEngineeringHistoryArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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On the eve of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, British officer Frederick Burnaby, who wanted to see what is happening in Anatolia in person, had covered more than 3200 kilometres in five months travelling around Anatolia on horseback. Burnaby reported that during his travel he saw Turkish battalion and regiments while training. The commanders personally showed him most of the barracks, forts, position of the cannons, and the fortified emplacements with the information of how many there were. Burnaby, in his travel book, mentioned the geographical location of Erzurum, and the link roads from this city to Kars, Ardahan, Van and Erzincan. In his travel book he not only mentioned the fortified positions that should be done in the passages of Erzurum and its surroundings and referred to the elements of current defences but he also gave information about the city. Besides, he gave detailed information about conditions in bastions of Kars including the amount of soldiers, weapons and ammunition after visiting many of them, like Kanlı Bastion, Karadağ Bastion, Veli Paşa Bastion, etc. Moving from Kars to Ardahan, Burnaby stated that Ardahan was a bad place in terms of defense purposes; an enemy who seize the Ramadan Hill would easily dominate the Manusa Castle, the most powerful defensive position of the city, and so, would capture Ardahan city.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.866
Threshold uncertainty score0.860

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.083
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.133 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it