Battle of Eupatoria (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Storm of Eupatoria was the most important military engagement of the Crimean War on the Crimean theatre in 1855 outside Sevastopol. Turkish forces were being transferred from the Danube front to . the Crimean port of Eupatoria and the town was being fortified. Upon direct orders from the Czar who feared a wide-scale Turkish offensive on the Russian flank, a Russian expeditionary force was formed under General Stepan Khrulev aiming to storm the base with a force variously estimated between 20,000 to 30,000. Khrulev hoped to take the Turkish garrison by surprise on February 17, 1855. His intention failed to materialise, as both the Turkish garrison and the Allied fleet anticipated the storm.