A detachment of 12 thousand under the command of Mehmed Pasha invaded Georgia, intending to capture Kutaisi and go to the rear of the Russian army in the Caucasus.

Ottomans not waiting for the approach of Russian troops, threw in Ozurgeti large stocks of food and retreated behind the Choloki river.

A light battery advanced at a trot from the forest to the centre of the fighting order, and the mountain guns, under the general command of Colonel Mamatsev, opened an accurate fire.

General Meidel's troops were ordered to march at bayonets, and to assist them the fourth battalions of the Brest and Lithuanian regiments were advanced to the right of Brunner's second line, under his personal command.

The Russian artillery moved forward, together with the advancing infantry, to the nearest cartridge shot, opened a rapid firing, and then the battalions of the Kurin regiment, struck at bayonets, overturned the enemy and broke into the camp; Mehmed Pasha sent to maintain the battle lines all his reserve and met the advancing columns with cartridges and battalion fire of infantry.

Emperor Nicholas, having received a report on the victory at Choloki, granted Ivane Andronikashvili the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky.