Inkermann
a village of Russia, in the S. of the Crimea. During the Crimean War, the Russians, nearly 50,000 strong, assailed the weakest part of the English position facing the harbor of Balaklava and the caverns of Inkermann, Nov. 5, 1854. For six hours, 8,000 British troops encountered at various points and resisted the assault of this overwhelming force. The French came to the support of the English, and the Russians were driven back with great slaughter.
INN (ancient Enus), a river of Germany, the most important Alpine affluent of the Danube, rises in the S. of the Swiss canton of Grisons, and flows N. E. through the valley of the Engadine, and INJUNCTION, writ or process granted by a court of equity, and in Vol. V-Cyc-K INN through Tyrol and Bavaria to its junction with the Danube at Passau in a stream broader than that of the Danube.
Its total course is 317 miles.