Talk:Battle of Tarutino

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An entry from Battle of Tarutino appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 10 August 2006.

[edit] Opening paragraph

The opening paragraph states that the battle of Tarutino is sometimes called "battle of Chernishnya" ...due to the fact that it took place 8 km from the village of Tarutino." This looks like an odd statement to me. I'm not sure how others interpret this sentence.

For me something like this would sound more logical: 'Sometimes called "battle of Chernishnya" after the local river but mostly called "battle of Tarutino" due to the fact that it took place 8 km from the village of Tarutino.' Pukkie 05:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, probably I have to rephrase it. I wanted to write the following: the battle is usually called "the battle of Tarutino", but some historians contend that it should not be called this way at all because the village of Tarutino was in fact quite far from the described events (8 km). That is why they suggest that the battle should be called after the river. Blacklake (Talk) 08:13 August 11 2006

I rewrote it. Blacklake (Talk) 08:45 August 11 2006

Something that might improve this article would be to mention the unusually large number of cannon captured by the Russians at Tarutino: 39 guns. Up until this point in the war, that many cannon had not been captured by either side. 39 cannon captured in battle was considered to be huge.

Kenmore 15:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore