Passage: The failure of the Şarköy-Bulair operation and the deployment of the 2nd Serbian Army together with its much needed heavy siege artillery sealed Adrianople's fate. On 11 March after a two weeks' bombardment which destroyed many of the fortified structures around the city, the final assault started with Allied forces enjoying a crushing superiority over the Ottoman garrison. Under the command of General Nikola Ivanov, the Bulgarian 2nd Army with 106,425 men and two Serb divisions with 47,275 men conquered the city, with the Bulgarians suffering 8,093 and the Serbs 1,462 casualties. The Ottoman casualties for the entire Adrianople campaign reached 23,000 killed. The number of prisoners is less clear. The Ottoman Empire began the war with 61,250 men in the Adrianople fortress. Richard Hall notes that 60,000 men were captured. Adding to the 33,000 killed, the modern Turkish General Staff History notes that 28,500 man survived captivity leaving only 10,000 men unaccounted for as possibly captured . Bulgarian losses for the entire Adrianople campaign amounted to 7,682. This was the last and decisive battle that was necessary for a quick end to the war, even though it is speculated that the fortress would have fallen eventually due to starvation. The most important result was that now the Ottoman command lost all hopes of regaining the initiative, which made any further fighting pointless.
Approximately when did the bombardment of Adrianople start? Did more men die in the final assault that were Serbs or that were Bulgarians? How many casualties were suffered between the Bulgarians, the Serbs and the Ottomans? How many casulties did General Ivanov's army suffer in total? How many is the difference between the Bulgarian 2nd Army and the two Serb divisions? How many is the difference between the men who were killed and the number who survived captivity? How many men does the Turkish General Staff History say survived captivity in addition to the men that were ultimately unaccounted for? How many men were under Ivanov's command in the final assault on Adrianople? How many more casualties did the Bulgarians experience than the Serbs? How many more casualties did the Bulgarians suffer than the Serbs? How many more men did the Ottoman Empire lose over the Bulgarians, during the Adrianople campaign? How many more men survived captivity than were unaccounted for? How many more men were in the Bulgarian 2nd Army than were in the two Serb divisions that conquered the city? How many more men were unaccounted for than were lost? How many total Bulgarian and Serb casualties were there? In total how many men were under General Nikola Ivanov's command? In what month did the bombardment of Adrianople begin? What month did the bombardment of Adrianople begin? When the Bulgarian 2nd Army and the Serb divisions captured the city, how many more men of the Bulgarian army were there then men in the two Serb divisions? Which had less troops, the Bulgarian 2nd Army or the two Serb divisions? Which lost more casualties, Bulgarians or Serbs? Who had more casualties, the Bulgarians or the Serbs? Who suffered more casualties at Adrianople?