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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
Revision as of 15:50, 30 September 2009
| Recapture of Delhi Sep 1857 | ||
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| Part of Indian Mutiny | ||
| Date: | 14-20 September 1857 | |
| Location: | Delhi National Capital Region | |
| Presidency: | Bengal | |
| Co-ordinates: | 28.656233°N 77.241066°E | |
| Result: | British victory | |
| Combatants | ||
| Delhi Field Force | Rebel Sepoys | |
| Commanders | ||
| Maj Gen Archdale Wilson | ||
| Strength | ||
| Casualties | ||
Storming Parties
| 1st Column under Brig-Gen Nicholson to assault the main breach |
Men | |
| HM 75th Foot | (Lt-Col Herbert) | 200 |
| 1st Bengal Europeans | (Major Jacob) | 250 |
| 2nd Punjaub Infantry | (Capt Green) | 450 |
| 2nd Column under Brig Jones to assault the Water Bastion |
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| HM 8th Foot | (Lt-Col Greathed) | 250 |
| 2nd Bengal Europeans | (Capt Boyd) | 250 |
| 4th Sikh Infantry | (Capt Rothney) | 450 |
| 3rd Column under Col Campbell to assault the Cashmere Gate |
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| HM 52nd Foot | (Maj Vigors) | 200 |
| Kumaon Goorkhas | (Capt Ramsay) | 250 |
| 1st Punjaub Infantry | (Capt Rothney) | 500 |
| 4th Column under Maj Reid to assault the Kissengunje |
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| Sirmoor Goorkhas | ||
| Guides Infantry | ||
| European Pickets | ||
| Native Pickets | 850 | |
| Reserve under Brig Longfield to assault the Water Bastion |
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| HM 61st Foot | (Lt-Col Deacon) | 250 |
| 4th Punjaub Infantry | (Capt Wilde) | 450 |
| Belooch Battalion | Lt-Col Farquhar) | 300 |
| Jheend Auxiliaries | (Lt-Col Dunsford) | 300 |
External Links
The British Empire - Indian Mutiny 1857-58
Wikipedia - Siege of Delhi
Google Books - Officers killed or wounded at the siege of Delhi
Recommended Reading
"Indian Mutiny" by Saul David 2002 ISBN 0141005548
"The Last Mughal" by William Dalrymple 2006 ISBN 9780747587272 10987654
