[Footnote 1:  The late Major-General Sir Harry Tombs, V.C., K.C.B.]

[Footnote 2:  The Chaplain’s Narrative of the siege of Delhi.]

[Footnote 3:  Now the 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkhas.]

[Footnote 4:  ‘Siege of Delhi; by an Officer who served there.’]

[Footnote 5:  The late General Sir Hope Grant, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 6:  75th and 1st Bengal Fusiliers.]

[Footnote 7:  1st Battalion 60th Rifles, 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and Sirmur battalion.]

[Footnote 8:  Swampy ground.]

[Footnote 9:  ‘The Indian Mutiny,’ by George W. Forrest.]

[Footnote 10:  The bastions were small, each mounting from ten to fourteen pieces of Artillery; they were provided with masonry parapets about 12 feet in thickness, and were about 16 feet high.  The curtain consisted of a simple masonry wall or rampart 16 feet in height, 11 feet thick at top, and 14 or 15 feet at bottom.  This main wall carried a parapet loopholed for musketry 8 feet in height and 3 feet in thickness.  The whole of the land front was covered by a faussebraye of varying thickness, ranging from 16 to 30 feet, and having a vertical scarp wall 8 feet high; exterior to this was a dry ditch about 25 feet in width.  The counterscarp was simply an earthen slope, easy to descend.  The glacis was very narrow, extending only 50 or 60 yards from the counterscarp, and covering barely one-half of the walls from the besiegers’ view.  These walls were about seven miles in circumference, and included an area of about three square miles (see Colonel Baird-Smith’s report, dated September 17, 1857).]

[Footnote 11:  The late Field Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.]

[Footnote 12:  So badly off were we for ammunition for the heavy guns at this time, that it was found necessary to use the shot fired at us by the enemy, and a reward was offered for every 24-pounder shot brought into the Artillery Park.]

[Footnote 13:  Now General Sir Charles Reid, G.C.B.]

[Footnote 14:  Forrest’s ‘Indian Mutiny’ and Norman’s ’Narrative of the Siege of Delhi,’ two interesting accounts from which I shall often quote.]

[Footnote 15:  A Mahomedan place of worship and sacrifice.]

[Footnote 16:  ‘Siege of Delhi; by an Officer who served there.’]

[Footnote 17:  Forrest’s ‘The Indian Mutiny.’]

[Footnote 18:  Reid’s own report.]

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CHAPTER XIV. 1857

A new appointment

I will now continue my story from the 29th June, the morning after my arrival in camp, when I awoke full of excitement, and so eager to hear all my old friend Norman could tell me, that I am afraid he must have been considerably bored with my questions.