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Plan of the Passage of the Ingour, 1856. Crimean War: map showing '...the ground on which Omer Pacha's late victory took place [and] the strategy by which he succeeded in forcing the passage of a broad and rapid river, notwithstanding the strong position occupied by the enemy...Omer Pacha ordered a simultaneous attack on both points. Osman Pacha, with six battalions, crossed the Ingour in the face of the enemy...driving him from the bank at the point of the bayonet; while in the centre Colonel Simmonds, with two battalions of infantry, and Ballard's rifles, dashed through the stream and carried the intrenchment by storm...The Russians, driven from the battery, fled in confusion; and, finding...that a victorious enemy had turned their left flank, they abandoned the fort of Ruchi; and the whole of the Turkish army was transferred to the left bank of the Ingour'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.