Note 180 — SIEGE OF DELHI. 30th. May to 14th. September, 1857.

Well might the Governor-General, in his “Notification,” remark, that “Before a single soldier, of the many thousands who are hastening from England to uphold the supremacy of the British power, has set foot on these shores, the rebel force, where it was strongest and most united, and where it had the command of unbounded military appliances, has been destroyed or scattered by an army collected within the limits of the North-western Provinces and the Punjab alone.”