September would open on the Ridge with work for the engineers. Tasked with constructing siege batteries that would, when ready, beat breaches into the walls surrounding the city, the work had to be accomplished with all the disadvantages of warfare. They had to work quickly but also mostly in the dark to prevent their workforce from becoming easy targets; at the same time, the fighting continued around them with all the death and misery epitomes to the siege.

The attack on Delhi would begin on the 14th of September, but the city itself would not be declared as taken until the 22nd. What followed the initial storming would be over a week of street fighting as the British made their way through the streets and houses, encountering stout resistance all the way. In some of the bloodiest fighting of the mutiny, the city would be devastated, and its population forced to flee under a wave of violence. When it was all over, the only living things left in Delhi were the pariah dogs, feeding on the dead.

  • Delhi Besieged – building the siege batteries and the battering of the walls begins
  • Returns for September 1857 – the dead and wounded from 1st-13th September
  • The 14th of September – the storming of Delhi
  • Returns for the 14th of September 1857, Delhi – the dead and the wounded for one day
  • Delhi Taken – they are inside the walls but the fighting continues
  • The Controversy of William Raikes Hodson – murder or execution?
  • Acts of Bravery – the Delhi VCs for September
    Bugler William Sutton – 60th Rifles
    Private John Divane – 60th Rifles
    Colour Sergeant George Waller – 60th Rifles
    Ensign Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps, 11th BNI – the Posthumous VC
    Privates Ryan and McGuire of the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers
    Private Patrick Green – HM’s 75th Regiment
    Lance-Corporal Henry Smith – HM’s 52nd Regiment
    Lieutenant Robert Shebbeare – 60th BNI
    The Explosion Party – Lieutenants Duncan Home & Phillip Salkeld, Bengal Engineers, Sergeant John Smith, Bengal Sappers & Miners
    Bugler Robert Hawthorne, HM’s 52nd Regiment
    Surgeon Herbert Taylor Reade
  • Returns for Delhi 15th-22nd September

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