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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Downfall of Delhi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September<br>That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced to surrender;<br>The attack was first to be made by Brigadier Nicholson,<br>And he was ordered to attack the Cashmere Bastion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British were entirely in command.<br>Of Major-General Reid, assisted by Brigadier-Generals Wilson and Burnand;<br>After a long march, fighting through a hostile country,<br>And the brave heroes took up a position before the city. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delhi gates were encircled with a fringe of fire,<br>But the British resolved to die rather than retire;<br>And the brave fellows rushed, towards the gate<br>Carrying the powder bags that were to seal the Sepoys' fate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here their progress was checked, for the drawbridge was destroyed,<br>But the British felt very little annoyed,<br>Because a few planks were across the chasm thrown,<br>Then a match was applied to the powder bags, and into atoms the gate was blown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the rebel artillerymen with terror fled,<br>For the streets were strewn by the Sepoy dead;<br>Then the British charged them without fear,<br>Shouting &quot;On boys, on, for our Queen and Country dear.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Lieutenant Home gave orders to advance,<br>And charge them with your bayonets, it is our only chance;<br>And with a ringing British cheer they charged, them fearlessly,<br>And. they drove the enemy before them through the streets of the city. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the young bugler blew a blast loud and clear,<br>Which was answered by a British ringing cheer;<br>But General Nicholson was killed, which was a great loss,<br>And afterwards the bugler was decorated with the Victoria Cross. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">General Jones formed a junction with Colonel Campbell's Regiment,<br>And to enter by the Cashmere Gate they were bent;<br>And they advanced through the streets without delay,<br>And swept all before them through the gate without dismay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The streets were filled with mutineers who fought savagely,<br>Determined to fight to the last and die heroically,<br>While the alarm drums did beat, and the cannons did roar,<br>And the dead and the dying lay weltering in their gore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the rebels fought for King Timour like tigers in a cage,<br>He was a very old man, more than ninety years of age;<br>And their shouts and yells were fearful to hear,<br>While the shrill sound of the bugle smote on the ear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British dash at Delhi will never be forgot,<br>For the chief instigators of the mutiny were shot;<br>And their bodies in the Mayor's Court were hung,<br>And as the people gazed thereon, their hearts with anguish were wrung. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that evening General Wilson drank the health of the Queen,<br>Also his officers hailed her Empress of India, which enhanced the scene;<br>While the assembled thousands shouted &quot;God save the Queen!&quot;<br>Oh! it was a most beautiful scene. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delhi was a glorious prize, for the city was full of jewels and gold,<br>Besides a hundred pieces of cannon, be it told;<br>But dearly was the victory gained,<br>But in the book of fame the British are famed;<br>Oh, it was a glorious and heroic victory,<br>And will be handed down to posterity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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