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THE CAPTURE OF D.XLRL

THE OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

From Major-General A. Wilson, Commanding
Delhi Field Force, to the Adjutant-General of
the Army.

Delhi, Sept. 22.
Sir,—ln continuation of my despatch on the 16th
inst. have now the honour to forward a report,
for :iformation of the Major-General command-
ing the Upper Provinces, his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief, and the Government of the
further operations under my command since that
date.

During the rah and 18th we continued to take

up advanced posts in the face of considerable oppo-
sition on the part of the rebels, and not without
loss to ourselves, three (3) officers being killed, and
a number of men killedand wounded. On the even-
ing of the 19th the Burn Bastion, which bad given
us considerable annoyance, was surprised and cap-
tured.

On the morning of the 20th our troops pushed
on and occupied the Lahore-gate, from which an
unopposed advance was made on the other bastions
and gateways until the whole of the defences of the
city were in our hands.

Prom the time of our first entering the city an
uninterrupted and vigorous fire from our guns
and mortars was kept up on the palace, Jumna
Musjid, and other important posts in possession of

the rebels ; and as we up-our various positions
in advance, our light guns and mortars were
brought forward and used with effect on the streets
and houses in their neighbourhood.
The result of this heavy and unceasing bombard-
ment, and of the steady and persevering advance of
our troops, has been the evacuation of the palace by
the King, the entire desertion of the city by the in-
habitants, and the precipitate flight of the rebel
troops, who, abandoning their camp, property,
many of their sick and wounded, and the greater part
of their field artillery, have fled in utter disorganisa-
tion—some 4,000 or 5,000 across the bridge of boats
into the Doab, the remainder down the right bank
of the Jumna.

The gates of the palace having been blown in, it
was occupied by our troops at about neon on the
20th, and my- head-quarters established in it the
same day.
The great diminution of our strength by losses in
. .

lotion (Turing the last few days, added to the severe
sickness prevailing among the troops, has prevented
my immediately organising and sending a column in
pursuit, but a force,* under command of Lieut.-
Colonel Greathed, will march to-morrow morning
towards Bolundshuhur and Allyghur to intercept
the rebels, whose intentions are said to be to cross
the Jumna at Muttra. My intelligence, however, I
regret to say, is very defective.
The King, who accompanied the troops, it is be-
lieved, for some short distance, last night gave him-
self up to a party of irregular cavalry, whom I had
sent out in the direction of the fugitives, and he is
now a prisoner under a guard of European soldiers.
Three of the shahzadars t who are known to have
taken a prominent part in the atrocities attending
the insurrection, have been this day captured by
Captain Hodson, and shot on the spot.
Thus has the important duty committed to this
force been accomplished, and its object attained.
Delhi, the focus of rebellion and insurrection, and
the scene of so much horrible cruelty, taken a I
made desolate ; the King -a prisoner in our
hands ; and the mutineers, notwithstanding
their great numerical superiority and their vast re-
sources in ordnance, and all the munitions and
appliances of war, defeated on every occasion of
engagement with our troops, and now driven with
slaughter in confusion and dismayfrom their boasted
stronghold.
The details of the operation have been so fully
entered into in my previous despatch and annexed
reports and returns from the various commanding
officers that little remains for me to say, but to again
express my unqualified approbation of the_conduct
and spirit of the whole of the troops, not only on
this occasion, but during the entire period they have
been in the field.
For four months of the most trying season of the
year this force, originally very weak in number, has
been exposed to the repeated and determined at-
tacks of an enemy far outnumbering it, and sup-
ported by a numerous and powerful artillery. The
duties imposed upon all have been laborious, harass-
ing, and incessant, and notw iths anding heavy
losses, both in action and from disease, have been at
all times zealously and cheerfully performed.
I beg to add my must cordial concurrence in the
commendatians bestowed by officers commanding
brigades, coluinns, and detachments on the officers
and men named in their several reports, and I have
to express my own deep obligations to those officers
themselves for the valuable assistance I have at all

times received from them.
To Major F. Gaitskell, who recently assumed
command of the artillery in the field, consequent
on Brigadier Garbett having been disabled by a
wound, and to the officers and men of that distin•
guisbed arm, to whose energy and untiring zeal the
successful issue of the operations is so largely at-
tributable, I have to offer my hearty thanks. And
particularly am I indebted to that excellent officer,
Lieut.-Col. Hogge, Director of the Artillery De-
pot, who volunteered his services as Commissary of
Ordnance with the siege train, through whose able
superintendence of the park and arrangements for
the supply of ammunition to the batteries our artil-
lery was enabled to deal out the destruction which
was effected ; as also to Capt. J. Young, Deputy
Commissary, and Mr. J. Stolesbury, Assistant
Commissary of Ordnance, for their exertions during
the whole siege.
To Lieut.-Col. Baird Smith, Chief Engineer,
who, in ill health and while suffering from the
effects of a painful wound, devoted himself with
the greatest ability and assiduity to the conduct of
the difficult and important operations of the siege ;
to his gallant and eminently talented second, Capt.
A. Taylor ; and to the whole of the officers and
men of the Engineer Brigade, my thanks and ac-
knowledgments are specially due for having planned
and successfully carried out, iu the face of extreme
and unusual difficulties, an attack almost without
parallel in the annals of siege operations.
To that most brilliant officer, Brigadier-General
J. Nicholson, whose professional character and
qualifications are so well known and appreciated, I
am under the greatest obligations for the daring
manner in which he led his column to the assault ;
arid I deeply deplore that his services are for the
present lost to the State.

- To Brigadier Hope Grant, C. 8., commanding
the Cavalry Brigade, and to Brigadiers J. Longfield
and W. Jones, C. 8., commanding Infantry Bri-
gades, lam deeply indebted ; and I have to offer
my best thanks to Col. G. Campbell, commanding
her Majesty's 52d Light Infantry, and to that in-
trepid and excellent officer, Major C. Reid, of the
Sirmoor Battalion, both wounded while gallantly
leading columns of attack • as also to Col. J. Jones,
commanding the Ist battalion 60th Royal Rifles—a

* Ist Troop, Ist Brigade Horse Artillery, 2d do., 3d do
No. 17 Light Field Battery, 9th Lancers, lst, 2d, and sth
Punjab Cavalry, Hodson's Horse (220), 2 companies Pun-
jab Sappers, H.M. Bth Regt., H.M. 7th ditto, 2d and 4th
Punjab Infantry.
Mirza Moghul, Mirza Kheyr Sultan, nom of Ow King ;
Aboo Bnkkur, grandson, ditto.

regiment which has shown a glorious example both!
in its daring gallantry and its perfect discipline, toi
vered the advance of the assaulting
the whole force—for the abiliti with which he co-i
columns.
I have pleasure also in brilgipg
notice the services rendered favourably to!
by Lieut.-Col. H. P 4
Burn, attached as Field Offier to the Ist brigade.'
of Infantry, and by Capt. aeymour. Blane, her
Majesty's 52d Light Infantry,
Major of Brigade to
Brigadier-General Nicholson.
Colonel J. L. Denniss, (4 her Majesty's 52d
Light Infantry, whom I plmedin charge ofthe camp
during the operations, is entitled to my thanks
and acknowledgments for theable dispositions hit
made with the troops under his command for thl)
due protection of his important
charge. . !
To the officers of the Genera Staff of the Army,
and to those of the Staff of the Field Force, my
cordial acknowledgments are ,tue for the admirable
manner in which they have performed their re-
sponsible duties.

To that very distinguishedefficer, Brigadier-Ge-
neral N. B. Chamberlain, Adjutant-General of the
Army, who, though still inespacita`ed by a seveie
wound previously received, iroceeded to the ridge
at Hindoo Rao's, and performed essential service
after Major Reid bad been vounded and it became
necessary to resume that petition.
To Captain H. W. Normal, Assistant Adjutant-
General of the Army, who on this, as on each, and
every occasion, has been diltinguished by his gal-
lantry and professional abilty.
To that experienced officer, Major R. S. Eivart,
Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant General, and his gal-
lant and energetic coadjutor, Capt. D. M. Stewart,
Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General, who have con-
ducted the duties of this important department
much to my satisfaction ; and to Captain E. 13.
Johnson, Assistant-4djutaut of Artillery, who
volunteered to command the 21-pounder battery,
moat ably and effectually carried out-the duty as-
signed to him, and who rejoined my personal staff
on the morning of the assaillt, and who has through-
out these operations given me the mostzealous and
efficient support, I am greatly indebted for the as-
sistance they have afforded me.
I beg also to bring very favourably to notice the
officers of the Quartermaster-General's Depart-
ment, Captain D. C. Shute, Captain H. M. Gar-
stilt), and Captain W. S. B. Hodson, who has per-
formed such good and gallant service with his
newly-raised regiment of Irregular Horse, and at
the same time conducted the duties of the Intelli-
' gene° Department under tie orders of the Quarter-
master-General with rare ability and success, also
that active and gallant officer, Lieut. F. S. Roberts,
attached to the Artillery Brigade, in the capacity
of deputy assistant quartermaster-general.
Lieut.-Col. Keith Young, Judge-Advocate-Gene-
,
ral, also, and his deputies, Capt. T. C. Maisey, and
Capt. H. W. Wilson, most zealously assisted me in
carrying my orders.
To the officers of my personal staff,—Capt, C. H.
Barchard, who has served with me, first as my
orderly officer and subsequently as aide-de-camp,
and to whose zealous and untiring exertions I am
deeply indebted ; to Capt. J. R. Turnbull, 2d aide-
de-camp, Capt. R.. 11. D. Lowe and Lieut. R. C.
Lowe, extra aides-de-camp, I am under great obli-
gations for the zeal and readiness with which they
on this and all other occasions have performed their
duties. My thanks are also due to Major H. A.
0 uvry, who attended me on the day of the assault.
For the valuable aid at all times rendered by the
officers of the civil service who have been attached
to the force I have to record my warm acknowledg-
ments. Mr. Hervey Greatbed, agent to the Deputy-
Governor, North-Western Provinces (whose subse-
quent sudden death I deeply lament), and Mr. C.
B. Saunders, both of whom attended me in action
and made themselves most useful; Sir T. Metcalfe,
whose gallantry in conducting Colonel Campbell's
assaulting column through the city was conspi-
cuous ; and Mr. R. W. Clifford, who was also in
attendance on me, are all entitled to my thanks.
While, however, in acknowledging the services of
those officers whose good fortune it was to be present
at the assault, and in the action of the 14th, I have
only performed a grateful duty, I should be greatly
wanting if I failed to record the names of those who
have previously distinguished themselves, but who,
incapacitated by wounds or sickness, wore unable to
join in the operations of that day.
Among these I have specially to notice Brigadier
St. G. D. Showers, whose cool gallantry on the
numerous occasions in which he has been engaged
has been conspicuous.
Also Colonel A. M. Becher, Quartermaster-Ge-
neral of the Army, who, though prevented by a
severe wound, received in June last, from taking
an active part in the field, has at all times rendered
me zealous assistance.

Lieut.-Colonel T. Seaton,
C. 8., of the 35th
Native Infantry, attached to the force, a most
valuable and experienced officer, of whose services
I have been deprived owing is a wound received by
him on the 23d July.
That admirable officer, Lieut.-Colonel Murray
Mackenzie, commanding the Ist Brigade of Horse
Artillery, of whose services f have also been de-
prived by a wound which he received when in
charge of the heavy batteries at an early stage of
our operations.
That officer so distinguished in our frontier war-
fare, Major J. Coke, commanding the Ist Punjab
Rifles, severely wounded at the head of his regiment
on the 12th of August • and the gallant commander
of the Guides, Capt. It D. Daly, who was very
severely wounded leading a most daring charge on
the enemy's guns in the actin of the 19th of June.
I need not observe how largely the success and
efficiency of an army depenis on the regularity of
its supplies. Under circumstances of peculiar diffi-
culty, in a district the popelation of which has been
inimical, and in which civil authority has ceased to
exist, this force has, from the commencement, been
kept well and sufficiently Provisioned with supplies
of every description,
the issue of rations to the sol-
diers having been as regular, both in quantity and
quality, as in cantonments, My warmest thanks are
therefore due to Lieut.-Col. W. B. Thompson, De-
puty-Commissary General, the admirable and
indefatigable head of that iepartmeut in the field ;
as also to Lieut. 1. H. Sibly,
officer ; to Lieut. Wate7field, and to the other
officers serving in that department.
With the medical arrangements of Superintend-
ing Surgeon E. Tritton Ihave every reason to be
satisfied, and he is
entitled to my cordial acknowtryingledgnsenie. At such a trying season of the year,
and in a notorionsly unhealthy locality, the sickness
and mortality have, of course, been heavy. In
addition to those sufferings from disease, the hos-
pitals have received daily almost accessions of
wounded men. The labours, therefore, of the
there has no; been at any time the
medical depart
slightest failure in the arrangements for the care
department have been unceasing, notwith-
standingand comfort of the very numerous patients.
zeal and' those medical officers whose unwearied
superior ability have come prominently
Amoner
before me, are—Officiating Superintending Surgeon
C. M‘Kinnon, M.D. who has been in the medical
charge of the let Brigade Horse Artillery ; Sur-
goon J. IL Kerr Inner, 60th Royal Rifles ; Sur-
goon J. P. Brougham, let Fusileers ; Surgeon E.
Hare, of the 2d Fusileers i • Assistant Surgeon J.
J. Clifford, M.D., of the 7th Lancers ; and Assis-
tant-Surgeon W. F. Mactires M.D. on the
personal staff of the late Commander-in-Chief.
Credit is also due to Surgeon D. Scott, M.D.,
medical storekeeper.
The duties and offices of the Provost-Marshal to
the force have been conducted by a very deserving
old non-commissioned officer Sergeant-Major S Loud,
3d Brigade Horse Artillery, whom I recommend to
favourable consideration for a commission.
The names of other non-commissioned officers
deserving of a similar reward I shall have the
pleasure of submitting hereafter.
I should neither be fulfilling the repeatedly ex-
pressed wishes of the Artillery officers attached to
c e6rtshan and
Dragoon
this force, nor following the dictates of my own in-
clination, if I failed to acknowledge the valuable
assistance which bas, throughout the operations be-
fore Delhi, been most cheerfully given by the non-
commissionedmen of her Majesty's 9th
Guards in working
the batteries. Without it, owing to the compara-
tively small number of artillerymen, I should have
been quite unable to man the batteries efficiently,
or to keep up the heavy fire which, aided by these
men, I have happily been able to do. To these
thee
regiments, therefore, and to Brigadier Grant, who
so readily placed a certain number of his men at
my disposal for such purpose, I tender my best
thanks.
It would be an omission on my part were I pass
over in silence the good services and loyal conduct
of one who has already been rewarded by the Go-
vernment for the friendly assistance he rendered to
our army in Affghanistan—l allude to the Nawab
Jan Fishan Khan, who, with his bravo nephew/
Sirdar Balladeer Meer Khan, and their retainers,
accompanied me from Meerut, was present at the
actions on the Ilinclun, and has since taken part in
nearly every action in which this force has been
engaged.
Of the loyal services rendered to the State by the
Rajah Qf Pkittialal which must In 30 Well known to

the Government, it may not be considered neces-,
sary for me to speak ; but it is inoumbent on me
in my capacity as commander of this force to ac-
knowledge officially the great assistance the Rajah's
troops have afforded me in enabling the numerou4
convoys of ammunition and stores to travel in
security and safety to my camp under their escort
and prLtection.
Equally Tit is my duty to bring prominently to
the notice of Government the admirable service
performed, by the Jheend Rajah and his troopd,
under command of Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Duna-
ford. , They have not only had very harassing
duties to carry out in the constant escort of con-
voys of sick and wounded men, ammunition, &c.,
but they have also aided me .n the field on more
than one occasion, and finally participated in the
assault of the city.
Lastly, I trust I may be excused if I thus pub-
licly acknowledge the all-important and invaluable
aid for which I am indebted to the Chief Commis-
sioner of the Punjab, Sir John Lawrence, K.C. 8.,
to whose indefatigable ,exertions to reinforcing me
with every available soldier in the Punjab the suc-
cessful result of our operations is, I mhesitatingly
pronounce, attributable, and I take this oppor-
tunity of recognising the: advantage derived from
the presence of the troops of his Highness the Ma-
harajah Runbeer Sing in alliance with the British
force, the moral effect of which has been great. And
although unsuccessful, I regret to say, in the actual
accomplishment of that part of the operations in
which the Jummoo Contingent was engaged on th©
14th, I can attach no particle of blame to those
tro ,ps, as I consider, under the circumstances in
which they were placed, the very strong position
which they bad to attack, and the prolonged and
determined resistance which they encountered from
an enemy superior to then in number, arras, train-
ing, and experience, that they behaved, under their
gallant commander, Captain R. C. Lawrence, and
the other British officers serving with them, to
whom my best thanks are due, as well as they
could have been expected to do.
I have, &c., Sir,
A. WILSON, Major-General,
Commanding Delhi Field Force.