Compared to the Holy Alliance, the Anglo-Turkish Allied Forces were in far worse shape.
The Ottoman Empire in particular had suffered losses to an utterly staggering extent. Of the two hundred thousand New Army troops painstakingly assembled at great expense, one quarter had been lost.
The losses among the hodgepodge local forces and hastily recruited conscripts were even greater. According to incomplete figures from regional authorities and units across the Ottoman Empire, casualties plus missing personnel might already have exceeded three hundred thousand.
They could not even tally the number of men, let alone calculate the material losses—it was nothing short of a fairy tale.
Two or three hundred thousand casualties would have been hard even for Russia to bear, but backwardness and numbness had their own benefits. Though the European part of the Ottoman Empire was gripped by panic, its Asian territories remained as tranquil as ever.
This crushing defeat greatly strengthened the Ottoman leadership's desire to move the capital. Queen Mother Shevkyevza even intended to send Murad V out of Istanbul first.
But The British could never possibly agree to that. The Ottomans had to hold the line, or all their previous efforts would have been in vain.
Britain did not fare well in this disastrous defeat either. Although Baron Raglan's startled warhorse throwing him from the saddle and injuring his back was regarded as the primary cause of the battle's failure.
Still, the Redcoat Army truly had lost more than ten thousand men and over a hundred cannons.
Quite a few of those had been newly developed British models that had only just entered service. The guns were too cumbersome, the British Army's retreat too hurried to destroy them, and with surrendered soldiers and collaborators leading the way, every last one of those cannons ultimately fell into