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Frontispiece for Sketches of Delhi taken during the Siege   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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J. R. Turnbull, del et lith
Author
Brevet Major J. R. Turnbull, 13th Light Infantry, del et lith. Publisher T. McLean, Haymarket. Printed at 70 St. Martin's Lane.
Title
Frontispiece for Sketches of Delhi taken during the Siege
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: Frontispiece for 'Sketches of Delhi taken during the Siege': detail inset 'The Selimghur Bridge', Indian Mutiny, 1857

Bridge leading to a gate into the city of Delhi.

One of 14 tinted lithographs by Brevet Major J R Turnbull, 13th Light Infantry, from 'Sketches of Delhi taken during the Siege', published by T McLean, 1858.

By 14 September 1857 the British had about 9,000 men before Delhi. A third were British while the rest were Sikhs, Punjabis and Gurkhas. The assault began when artillery breached the city walls and sappers blew in the Kashmir Gate. It took a week of vicious street fighting before Delhi was finally taken. The British and their Indian allies then ransacked the city in an orgy of looting and killing. Delhi's capture was key to British suppression of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859).

NAM Accession Number: NAM. 1971-02-33-564-01

National Army Museum, London

Location: National Army Museum, Study collection
Date 1858
date QS:P571,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
institution QS:P195,Q731616
Accession number
NAM. 1971-02-33-564-01
Credit line National Army Museum, London
Source/Photographer https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-564-01
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