The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-09 00:00:00

TB]! BATTLE AT EUP.JTOId.A.

THE FRENCH ACCOUNT.

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We have received the'Mouiteur of yesterday,
which contains General Canrobert's version of the
attack on..Eupatoria. It is as follows :
"CRIMEA, FEB. 19.
"Monsieur le Marechal,—Yesterday, the 18tb; an
English stEiamer coming from .',upatoria, brought the
• news that the enemy had vigorously attacked that place;
and had ben repulsed. That vessel left Eupatoria
without taLing the despatches of Commandant Osiuont, i
and I was \tithout details.
"To-day only I received a report I-om Commandant
Osmont containing the precise details, vbich I.subjuin :
. ".' In thi night between the 16th and 17th the Rue-
, sians, taking advantage of the darkness, established
.sound the place, the circumvallation,worlis of which are
hr not:- quite c plated, a sort of irregular parallel, consist-
ing o'fearth mounds thrown up, Intended to cover their
artiller V ant. riflemen. . • ' .
" '6n t l7th, .at. 8 a.m., 80 pieces of artillery opened
their are. „Behind this artillery there was a miss of
25,000 infai.A.-y, commanded (according to Commandant
(Mnont.) by! Ceneral Osten-Sacken. There were also
400 horse. 1

" ' After al c3r,nonade of nearly two hours'- &illation
the enemyplade4heir preparations for an assault on the
nerth-east siAle, where the smallest number of guns are
mounted. ive ba,4alions of-infantry, provided with the
necelssary.st terials for etossin, the fosse and scaling
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the walls, ance.d •to within 400 rnetreQ, protected b
a &apnea o wall belaying to an old cernotery. Tw3U
of these ba talions were then thrown forward. This
column arri d within' 20 metres of the fosse, but, re-
ceived by , brisk , fire, was compelled to retreat.
Brought up second time to the attack, it was vigor-
wilily repuls ,d by a-Turkish-battalion, which, nia,tting a
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sortie from the town, attacked it boldly at the point or
the bayonet nd rented it, while the small body of Turk-
ish cavalry iarged it_ on the flank. This column left
1.50 dead in he cemetery.
" ' Meantime the' cannonade continued along the
whole line. !The fire of the enemy was chiefly-concen-
trated on.the hit', 'so called, of the Mills,' - where the
.ifgyptian General of Division Selina Pasha, and the
Eg:ptian Colonel Rubtem Bey were killed, nobly fulfil-
ling Their ditty.
" 'll-t. 10 o'clock the Russians began to waver, and
were SusOu in full retreat.

"' The defence of Eupatoria confers the greatest
hoi.ot r upon the Cocumaiider-in-Chief, Omer Pasha, and
the troolm nude? lsis orders. It inaugurates in the hap-
piest and most briniant manner the debut of the Otto-
man arms in the Crivea-
" Commandant Osmont estimates the loss of the
enemy at 500 killed and 2,000 wounded. Writing at
the very moment of the er7mt, he had not received the
official return of the losses of the garrison. He esti-
mates them at about 100 killed and a proportionate
number of wounded.
" 'Our little French garrison of about 200 men
of the 3d Rpginient of Marines and a portion of the
crew of the• Henri IV. figured honourably in the
defence, under the orders of their commander, Chef-
.l'Eecadron of the Staff, Osmont, whose intelligence and
firmness are known to you. We bad four men killed
and eight wounded ; among the latter Lieut. nant Las
Cases, who had command of the marine guns. His
wound is not seri,llß. He is a distinguished officer, full

of vigour.
" The Eteatutra in the roadstead, among which I.
must mention the Veloce, Captain Dufour de Mont
Louis, rendered good :service to' the dofenee of Eupatoria
by a well-directed fire.
" 'I am, M. le Mar6chal, Ste.,
" CANROBERT. "

General Canrobert addressed a letter of congratulation
try Commandant Osmont, Governor of Eupatoria, saying
that he should send a report of the gallantry of himself
and garrison to the Emperor.

THE RUSSIAN ACCOUNT.
The Invalide Busse has the following account t`d
the affair, of the 17th at Eupatoria :
" We know by the repo' t of Prince Menschikoff's
aide-de-camp of the 12th that on the 3d the Turkish
troops disembarked at Eupatoria had made an offensive
movement upon the village of Saki, in numbers of mor,
than 10,000.

"In order to assure himself of the exact amount of
the enemy's forces in occupation of Eupatoria, and to
rucertain if there was not a possibility of expelling them,
Prince Mens&-tikoff ordered Lieutenant-General Chruleff
to execute on the 17th a strong reconnaissance upon that
tawn with a party of troops stationed in the vicinity.
"The troops destined for this operation approached
Eupatoria within the distance of 250 yards, and opened
ero,s fire of artillery upon the place.
" The eneiny re3p.onded with a lively cannonade froin
the fortifications which surround the city i nevertheless,
the action of our artillery was so happily executed that
in a few seconds five ammunition waggons belonging to
the Turks were blown up, and several pieces of cannon
dismounted.

"Carried away by this success, the 3d and 4th bat-
talions of the regiment of the Azoff infantry, the battalion
of Greek volunteers, and three sotnias of the reghnent
No. 61 of Cossacks of the Don de Jeroff, got nearer
to the town, and, profiting by the shelter which the
locality offered, commenced a smart fusillade with the
enemy ; nevertheless,. General Chruleff, being' assured
that the town contained nearly 40,000 troops with 100
pieces of artillery, and that further effort on our part
promised no result, gave orders to the troops to retire.
This difficult movement was executed with remarkable
order.

" Our loss in this affair amounts to nearly 500 men
killed or wounded. Theloss of the enemy was in all
probability much greater, forhis troops, pent up in narrow
streets, remained for a long time exposed to the terrible
fire of our artillery, the projectiles of which had clear
range of the entire town."