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 pulse. 58 KHROULEFF'S REPULSE FROM BEFORE EUJ'ATORIA. chap, began, and it was not molested, since Omar, II scarce having more than one full squadron of horse, could undertake no pursuit. At half-past ten o'clock in the morning, the engagement had come to an end. In killed and wounded the Russians lost some 800 men, and the garrison about half that number.* The enemy's This repulse in itself might seem only a trifling acquiescence j. n,. , e. .., . . in this re- discomnture, yet (as oftentimes happens in war) was destined to gather some weight from the fact of its proving conclusive. From the moment of Khrouleff's retreat to the end of the war, Russia always acquiesced in the briefly delivered arbitra- ment of the 17th of February, and thenceforth left to her foes the absolute, unchallenged owner- ship of that Eupatoria which, as many advisers believed, was the key, was the true master-key for laying open Sebastopol. Why ' the key,' though held fast, was not used, we shall by-and-by have means of seeing. 696), and the loss of the garrison (including 13 French) at 387. Of the native Tartars also 24 were cither killed or wounded. --Colonel Simmons to Lord Raglan, Feb. 18, lb55.
 * More exactly, the Russian loss is put at 769 (Todleben, p.