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1st Punjaub Infantry 2nd European Bengal 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Punjaub 4th Punjaub 52nd Light Infantry 6th Dragoon Guards advance army assault attack Bastion Brigadier-General British camp cantonments Captain H. M.'s capture Cashmere Gate cavalry cholera cloth column command commenced death defence Delhi Field Force Detachment duty enemy enemy's engaged Ensign European Bengal Fusiliers Fcap fight fire gallant Gorkhas Guide Corps H. M.'s 52nd Light H. M.'s 60th Rifles H. M.'s 75th Regiment H. M.'s 9th Lancers HARRIET MARTINEAU Hindoo Rao Hindun honour Horse hospital India JOHN WILLIAM KAYE June killed Kissen Gunge Kumaon Lieutenant Artillery Lieutenant Engineers Lucknow Ludlow Castle Major Reid Meerut morning musketry mutineers Native Infantry never Nicholson night occasion officers picquet Post 8vo rebels reinforcements round shot sepoys September severely shot Siege Battery SIEGE OF DELHI Sikh Sir Theophilus Metcalfe Sirmoor Battalion slightly soldier tent troops Umballa walls wounded
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