Eight Months' Campaign Against the Bengal Sepoy Army, During the Mutiny of 1857 |
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17 Battery 9th Cavalry 9th Lancers advance Agra Allyghur Alumbagh ammunition army arrived assault attack Bagh bank barracks Bengal besieged Bithoor boats body breach bridge Brigadier British brought camp canal Captain Remmington's captured carried carts Cashmere Gate Cawnpore cloth Colonel Greathed column command commenced crossed Delhi detachment Dil Khooshah distance encamped enemy enemy's entrenchment European flank force formed front Futtehghur Grand Trunk Road Gwalior Gwalior Contingent hands Havelock heavy guns Horse Artillery India Jullundur Lahore Lieutenant Lucknow Ludlow Castle marched Martiniere Meerut miles mortars mutiny Mynpoorie Nana native Nicholson night officers orders ordnance Oude Pandy picquet position possession Post 8vo Punjaub Cavalry Punjaub Infantry rear rebels regiments ridge river road round shot Royal Artillery Sappers scene Sealkote Secunderbagh sent sepoys siege SIEGE OF DELHI Sikhs Sir Colin Campbell soldiers station storm town Umritsur village walls Water Bastion whole wounded yards
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