rtillery: detachment Artillery recruits; Headquarters'
detachment Sappers and Miners; Her Majesty's 9th Lancers; two squadrons
Her Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards; headquarters and six companies 60th
Royal Rifles; headquarters and nine companies of Her Majesty's 75th
Regiment; 1st Bengal Fusiliers; headquarters and six companies 2nd
Fusiliers; Simoor battalion Goorkhas. On the morning of the 8th this
little army advanced from Alleepore towards Delhi. They encountered,
strongly intrenched, a body of mutineers 3000 in number. The enemy's
guns were well worked; the British artillery were unable to cope with
them. There was only one thing to be done. The order was given to
charge and capture the guns. With a ringing cheer, Her Majesty's 75th
rushed on amidst a hailstorm of musketry, and the sepoys fled in terror
to their next position; for they had constructed a line of defence from
the signal-tower to the late Maharajah Hindoo Rao's house, and disputed
every inch of the ground. However, by nine o'clock the army of
retribution was in possession of the parade-ground and cantonments.

The latter, indeed, were now covered with masses of blackened walls,
while the compounds were strewed with broken furniture, clothing, and
books. Here, at about a mile and a half from the walls of Delhi, the
army encamped, and waited for reinforcements.

The British advanced position was a strong brick-built house, on the top
of a hill overlooking the city. Near it three batteries were
constructed, which played night and day on the city. The mutineers had
also three batteries, which kept up a continual fire on the British
camp. They also generally sallied out each afternoon with a couple of
guns and some cavalry--the greater portion of their force, however,
consisting of infantry. The latter advanced skirmishing up, especially
towards the large house, among rocky ground, covered with brushwood,
which afforded them ample shelter. They always courted this system of
desultory fighting, in which the strength of the native soldiers is best
brought out. The British soldiers, on the contrary, too often lost
their lives from want of caution. Disdaining the advantages of cover,
fluttered with fury and impatience, and worn-out or stupefied by the
heat, they were often shot down as they pressed incautiously forward to
close with their wily foes.

However, after a time, the British soldiers made a very visible
improvement in skirmishing; and a