The initial clashes were around several villages to the north of the town. The Bulgarian attacks were irresistible and the Ottoman forces were forced to retreat. On 10 October, the Ottoman army threatened to split 1st and 3rd Bulgarian armies but it was quickly stopped by a charge by 1st Sofian and 2nd Preslav brigades. After bloody fighting along the whole town front, the Ottomans began to pull back and on the next morning and Kırk Kilise (Lozengrad) was in Bulgarian hands. The Muslim Turkish population of the town was expelled and fled eastwards towards
Constantinople. After the victory, the
French minister of war
Alexandre Millerand stated that the
Bulgarian Army was the best in
Europe and that he would prefer 100,000
Bulgarians for allies than any other European army. ==References==