Battle of Yevpatoria

Battle of Yevpatoria

Part of: Crimean War

French cavalry attack Russian units near Evpatoria ( Adolphe Yvon )

date	February 17, 1855
place	Yevpatoria
output	allied victory

Parties to the conflict
Ottoman Empire France United Kingdom	Russia
Commander
Omar Pascha Antoni Ilinski Armand d'Allonville	Stepan Khrulyov
Troop strength
35,000 men, 100 cannons , 6 warships	20,000 men, 108 cannons
losses
415 dead and wounded	2500 dead, 583 wounded

The Battle of Evpatoria ( Turkish Gözleve Muharebesi , Russian Штурм Евпатории ) was the most important battle of the Crimean War (1853-1856) away from the main scene of Sevastopol and ended with a Russian defeat.

prehistory

The city of Yevpatoria was occupied by about 30,000 Ottoman soldiers after the beginning of the siege of Sevastopol , who were reinforced by three French cavalry regiments and six Allied warships in the Black Sea . The Russian Tsar Nicholas I feared an attack on the Russian flank of the Crimea near Perekop due to the high number of garrison troops in Evpatoria . Finally he commissioned General SA Chrulyov to storm the city with about 20,000 men.

The battle

Chrulyov hoped to drive the Ottoman garrison out of the city with a surprise attack on February 17, 1855. The Allies, however, were warned in good time of the approaching Russians and were able to repel the attack, supported by ship artillery. After only three hours Khrulyov broke off the attack and withdrew with heavy losses.

consequences

Monument to the Battle of Yevpatoria

The defeat was ultimately one of the reasons for the dismissal of the Russian commander-in-chief in the Crimea Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov . In addition, the Allies could continue to threaten the Russian hinterland and cut off Crimea from the Russian Empire by attacking Perekop. Thus, the garrison troops in Evpatoria tied up Russian units that were now missing from the siege of Sevastopol.

Web links

Commons : Battle of Yevpatoria  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

proof

• Baumgart, Winfried: The Crimean War 1853-1856 , 1999
• Blake, RLV: The Crimean War , 1973

Coordinates: 45 ° 12 ′ 42 ″  N , 33 ° 22 ′ 52 ″  E