Qualla: Battle of Eupatoria https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/9/battle-of-eupatoria-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Eupatoria https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria Battle of Eupatoria: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria/ Photo credit various, Public domain. Two officers were offered the command and both found excuses to refuse it. Neither believed the attack on Eupatoria could succeed, and neither wanted his name attached to the failure. So Prince Menshikov turned instead to Lieutenant General Stepan Khrulev, an artillery officer described as willing to do exactly what he was told. On 17 February 1855, Khrulev led nearly nineteen thousand men against the walls of a Black Sea port during the Crimean War, and the doubts of those first two officers proved entirely correct. What happened at Eupatoria would ripple all the way to the throne room in St. Petersburg.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/9/battle-of-eupatoria-wp/u8p9-battle-of-eupatoria-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Eupatoria: A Tsar's Fear https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria/ Photo credit A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the winter of 1854, the Crimean War had settled into a grinding siege of Sevastopol, and both sides were pouring reinforcements onto the peninsula. Eupatoria mattered because it was one of two main points where the Allies landed their troops and supplies from across the Black ...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/9/battle-of-eupatoria-wp/u8p9-battle-of-eupatoria-a-tsars-fear.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Eupatoria: The Assault at Dawn https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria/ Photo credit Franz Krüger, Public domain. The city was no easy target. Some 33,000 defenders held it, mostly Turkish infantry under the experienced Omar Pasha, protected by an earthen wall, a water-filled ditch, thirty-four cannon, and the guns of Allied warships anchored offshore. Khrulev planned a three-column attack, ...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/9/battle-of-eupatoria-wp/u8p9-battle-of-eupatoria-the-assault-at-dawn.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Eupatoria: Stopped at the Ditch https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria/ Photo credit Investigatio, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the Russian guns gained the upper hand and the Turkish fire slackened, Khrulev sent his infantry forward on the left, among them a battalion of Greek volunteers who had joined the Russian side only weeks before. Sheltering in the ruins of a cemetery, the soldiers pressed tow...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/p/9/battle-of-eupatoria-wp/u8p9-battle-of-eupatoria-stopped-at-the-ditch.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Eupatoria: The Weight of a Defeat https://qualla.com/battle-of-eupatoria/ Photo credit R.Hind. W.Hulland. London Printing and Publishing Company, Public domain. The cost fell hardest on the attackers. The Russians lost 168 killed, 583 wounded, and 18 missing, nearly twice the Turkish casualties of 91 killed and 286 wounded; among the Ottoman dead was General Selim-Pasha. These were thousands of individual men, freezing on a Crimean plain...

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