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[[Category:Battles|Delhi Massacre]][[Category:Delhi Campaign|Mutiny at Delhi Massacre]][[Category:Indian Mutiny|Mutiny at Delhi Massacre]]
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'''This event was part of the [[Delhi Campaign]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]]'''
== Summary ==
Following the uprisings at Meerut and elsewhere mutineers converged on Delhi. The 54th BNI were marched in to restore order but shot their officers and joined the mutiny. The sepoys then killed all the Europeans they came across. A party of officers and NCOs defended the magazine until their field guns were out of ammunition. Conductor Scully then blew up the arms store perishing in the process. The rebels took possession of the city.
== Native Regiments ==
'''In Delh'''i
*[[38th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|38th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[54th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|54th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[74th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|74th Bengal Native Infantry]]<br>
'''From Meerut'''
*[[11th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|11th Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|20th Bengal Native Infantry]]
== Defenders of the Magazine ==
*Lieut Willoughby, Bengal Artillery, Deputy Commissary at Delhi - escaped to the Cashmere Gate
*Lieut Raynor, Ordnance Dept - escaped to Meerut
*Lieut Forrest, Ordnance Dept - escaped to the Cashmere Gate
*Conductor Buckley - escaped to Meerut
*Conductor Shaw
*Conductor Scully - killed in the explosion
*Sub-Conductor Crow
*Sergeant Edwards
*Sergeant Stewart
== European Casualties ==
''"The Last Mughal"'' by William Dalrymple 2006 ISBN 9780747587272 10987654
