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9tli Lancers. " The supply of shot and shell," says 

 Greathed, " seems sufficient to grind Delhi to 

 powder." The arrival of those sixty guns, how- 

 itzers, and mortars, preceded or followed by a few 

 hundred fresh troops from the Punjab, Firozpur, 

 and Meerut, filled every heart in camp with the 

 promise of a glorious ending to the toils, struggles, 

 and anxieties of the past three months. 



All through that first week of September nearly 

 the whole of Wilson's troops were employed in 

 making ready for the assault which our heavy 

 guns would shortly open against the doomed city, 

 where mutiny and murder had run riot upon that 

 woeful Monday in May. " To-night," says Hodson, 

 writing on the 6th, "I believe the engineers are 

 really to begin work constructing batteries, so that 

 in two or three days Delhi ought to be taken. If 

 General Wilson delays now, he will have nothing 

 left to take : all the sepoys will be off to their 

 homes, or into Rohilkhand, or into Gwalior." 



