 On 3 December, the Ottomans were dug in at Qurna.A British force of two Indian battalions; the 104th Wellesley's Rifles and the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, and a double company of British soldiers from the Norfolk Regiment accompanied by several gunboats attacked them.The Royal Navy vessels on the Euphrates kept the Ottomans under fire while British troops managed to cross the Tigris.