London Daily News -
Circassia, London Daily News, Monday 3 September 1866

Letters received here from Soukoum Kale state that 7,000 Abasians attacked and captured that town on the 27th July, the Russian garrison at the time numbering only 600 men. A reinforcement of 1,100 Russian troops had subsequently arrived at Soukoum Kale and driven out the insurgents.