Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Delhi Campaign

5,049 bytes added, 07:11, 12 July 2020
Historical books online
The 3,000 British forces, vastly outnumbered by the rebels, were too weak to storm the city. They fought a series of engagements with the mutineers during June and July. Barnard died of cholera on 5 July and was succeeded by General Thomas Reed who relinquished command to Wilson twelve days later due to ill health.<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nicholson_(East_India_Company_officer) [John Nicholson|Brigadier John Nicholson]] arrived with his movable column on 14 August and on 8 September [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lawrence,_1st_Baron_Lawrence Sir John Lawrence] brought reinforcements with heavy siege artillery. The assault on the city began on 14 September and by 21 September Delhi was recaptured. == Related articles ==[[Mutiny at Delhi]] 11-16 May 1857<br>[[Battle of Ghazee-ood-din-Nuggur]] 30 May<br>[[Battle of Hindun River]] 31 May<br>[[Battle of Badli-ki-Serai]] 8 June<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 – Subzee Mundee|Action at Subzee Mundee]] 9 June<br> [[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Metcalfe House|Capture of Metcalfe House]] 12 June<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Idgah Battery|Attack on the Idgah Battery]] 17 June<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - Ochterlony Garden|Action at Ochterlony Garden]] 19 June<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 - The Sammy House|Capture of the Sammy House]] 23 June<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 – Subzee Mundee|Action at Subzee Mundee]] 9 July<br>[[Siege of Delhi 1857 – Subzee Mundee|Action at Subzee Mundee]] 13 August<br>[[Action at Khurkowdah]] 15 August<br>[[Battle of Rohtak]] 17-18 August<br>[[Battle of Nujjuffghur]] 25 August<br>[[Recapture of Delhi Sep 1857|Recapture of Delhi]] 14-20 September
== Delhi Army ==
*120 Siege Artillerymen<br>
== Biographies ==Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906:<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/26/mode/2up/search/Barnard Henry Barnard (1799-1857)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/176/mode/up/ James Hope Grant (1808-1875)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/202/mode/2up/ William Hodson (1821-1858)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/314/mode/1up/ James Neill (1810-1857)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/315/mode/1up/ John Nicholson (1821-1857)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/354/mode/2up Thomas Reed (1796-1883)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/426/mode/1up/ Henry Tombs (1824-1874)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/454/mode/1up/ Archdale Wilson (1803-1874)]<br> == External Links links ==*''1857: A Brief Political and Military Analysis'' by Maj (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin [http://web.archive.org/web/20060206050655/defencejournal.com/2000/jan/dehli-campaign.htm Chapter Six: "The Delhi Campaign"] Article by Maj Agha Humayun Amindefencejournal.com (Pakistan). January 2000 Issue. now archived.<br>*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GrICAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA121&dq=Delhi+Campaign+1857&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Delhi%20Campaign%201857&f=false 1st Bengal European Fusiliers in the Delhi Campaign] Google Books<br>*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/delhi1857/delhi1857max.jpg Map of Delhi 1857-58] www.columbia.edu<br>*[http://books.google.com/books?id=VfgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA295&dq=Siege+of+Delhi:+Final+Operations%2BAnson%2BReed%2BWilson%2BBarnard&ei=f0PDSueDGYmONfbWjOID#v=onepage&q=Siege%20of%20Delhi%3A%20Final%20Operations%2BAnson%2BReed%2BWilson%2BBarnard&f=false Siege of Delhi] Google Books<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Delhi Siege of Delhi] Wikipedia<br>*[https://www.rlc-conductor.info/TryingOccasion.htm "This Trying Occasion: An account of the Indian Mutiny"] Gives an account of the blowing up of the Delhi [ammunition] magazine on the 11th May 1857 by Ordnance Officers and Conductors. From [http://www.rlc-conductor.info/home.htm rlc-conductor.info]/"Articles, Features & Essays". Appears to be originally from ''RAOC Gazette, Feb 1988'', pages 386-388.<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wadeson Richard Wadeson's VC] Wikipedia===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024080719/page/n8 ''The Chaplain's Narrative of the Siege of Delhi : from the Outbreak at Meerut to the Capture of Delhi''] by John Edward Wharton Rotton, one of the Chaplains of Meerut and Chaplain to the Delhi Field Force. 1858 Archive.org*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fMNGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Letters written during the Siege of Delhi''] by H H Greathed, late of the Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner and Political Agent of Delhi, edited by his widow 1858 Google Books.*[https://archive.org/details/historyofsiegeof00offirich ''History of the Siege of Delhi''] by An Officer who served there. [William Wotherspoon Ireland, MD] 1861 Archive.org. He was Assistant Surgeon, attached to the Bengal Horse Artillery. He was wounded and retired a few years later.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vF9WICyY_GgC&pg=PA1 ''Letters written during the Siege of Delhi''] by Lt.-Colonel J R Turnbull, at that time Lieutenant H M 75th Regiment and ADC to Gen. Sir H Barnard, Gen. Reid and Gen. Sir Archdale Wilson. 1876 Google Books.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/withhm9thlancers00ansorich#page/n7/mode/2up ''With H.M. 9th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny. The letters of Brevet-major O.H.S.G. Anson''] 1896 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.444/page/n3/mode/2up ''Delhi - 1857. The Siege, Assault and Capture as given in the diary and correspondence of the late Colonel Keith Young, CB, Judge-Advocate General, Bengal''] edited by General Sir Henry Wylie Norman and Mrs Keith Young. 1902 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Judge-Advocate General was an Army position.*[http://archive.org/stream/narrativeofsiege00grifiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi with an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857''] by Charles John Griffiths, Late Captain [[61st Regiment of Foot|61st Regiment]] 1910 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/englishwomaninin0000tytl/page/n5 ''An Englishwoman in India : the memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858''] by Harriet Tytler. Edited by Anthony Sattin. 1986. Archive.org Lending Library. Harriet Tytler, the wife of Captain Robert Tytler, was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi in 1857. *[https://archive.org/details/thelastmughalthefallofadynastydelhi18572008vintagebooks_201910 ''The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857''] by William Dalrymple 2006 Archive.org. {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}    [[Category:Delhi Campaign| Delhi Campaign]][[Category:Indian Mutiny| Delhi Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Delhi Campaign]]
29,515
edits

Navigation menu