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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political Foreign News August 8, 1811
Alexandria, Virginia
What is this article about?
Count Kutusow is organizing the Russian grand army into four corps along the Danube; reports on negotiations with the Turks are contradictory, with many believing the Grand Vizier wants war.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.77% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 98.53% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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VIENNA, May 24.
Count Kutusow is occupied with the organization of the grand army; he has divided it in four grand corps of infantry and corps of cavalry. The principal corps of infantry and that of cavalry is concentrated on the left bank of the Danube, between Rudschuck and Bucharest; they were to be commanded by generals Langeron and Sass. The three other corps will take a position upon the right bank of the Danube, the first between Widdin and Vissa, the second at Rasgrad upon the road from Rudschuck and Fernow, and the third between Sillistria and Varna.
The intelligence which we receive respecting the negotiations are very contradictory. Some talk of peace, others of an armistice; but the greater number are persuaded that the Grand Vizier wishes war and that he will renew it with vigour.
Count Kutusow is occupied with the organization of the grand army; he has divided it in four grand corps of infantry and corps of cavalry. The principal corps of infantry and that of cavalry is concentrated on the left bank of the Danube, between Rudschuck and Bucharest; they were to be commanded by generals Langeron and Sass. The three other corps will take a position upon the right bank of the Danube, the first between Widdin and Vissa, the second at Rasgrad upon the road from Rudschuck and Fernow, and the third between Sillistria and Varna.
The intelligence which we receive respecting the negotiations are very contradictory. Some talk of peace, others of an armistice; but the greater number are persuaded that the Grand Vizier wishes war and that he will renew it with vigour.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
Diplomatic
What keywords are associated?
Kutusow Grand Army
Danube Corps
Russian Turkish Negotiations
What entities or persons were involved?
Count Kutusow
General Langeron
General Sass
Grand Vizier
Where did it happen?
Vienna / Danube
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Vienna / Danube
Event Date
May 24
Key Persons
Count Kutusow
General Langeron
General Sass
Grand Vizier