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| |partof=[[Indian Mutiny]]
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| |date=9 June & 13 August 1857
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| |location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi Delhi]
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| |presidency=[[Bengal]]
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| |co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=28.656233,77.241066&z=15&t=h&hl=en 28.656233°N 77.241066°E]
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| |result=Successsful British attack
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| |territory=
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| ||combatant1=[[East India Company]]
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| |combatant2=Rebel Sepoys
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| == External Links ==
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| [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/mutiny/mutiny.htm The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Delhi#Capture_of_Delhi_by_the_Rebels Wikipedia - Siege of Delhi]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TBANAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=Subzee+Mundee&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=98KdSIegMJCkjgHMr4GDBg#PPA327,M1 Atttack on 9 June]<br>[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/Delhi1893.jpg Rootsweb Map of Old Delhi 1893 showing suburb of Subji Mandi]
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| == Recommended Reading ==
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| ''"Indian Mutiny"'' by D Saul 2002 ISBN 0141005548<br>''"The Last Mughal"'' by William Dalrymple 2006 ISBN 9780747587272 10987654
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| [[Image:Red-Fort-plan.jpg|thumb|Red Fort Plan 1906]]
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