Crossword-Solution: EUPATORIA 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The first time that I was in Buenos Ayres, in 1883, two of the original Crimean engines were still running on this little railway, the "Balaclava" and the "Eupatoria," the latter re-christened "Presidente Mitre." The newer railways followed the lead of the pioneer, and so it comes about that Ireland and the Argentine Republic have the same standard gauge.

Six days later came the tidings of the successful landing, without opposition, in the neighbourhood of Eupatoria.

The Duke of Newcastle received a telegram on the 21st of September announcing that 25,000 English troops, 25,000 French and 8000 Turks had landed safely at Eupatoria "without meeting with any resistance, and had already begun to march upon Sebastopol." The war was popular with the English people, but the ministry of Lord Aberdeen, which inaugurated it, was becoming unpopular.

Accordingly a landing of the allied forces--British, French, and Turkish--to the number of 54,000 men, was made on the Crimea, at Eupatoria, no opposition being offered by the enemy.

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