Delhi was the metropolis of the Mughal empire, which had been diminished to inconsequence over the century. The Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, who turned eighty-two, had been primed by the East India Company that the legacy would die with him. At the time, Delhi was not a major centre of Company administration although Company officials ruled the city’s finances and courts. They and their families lived in the “civil lines” to the northern part of the state.The British invaded Delhi and captured it in 1857, which is famously known as the Revolt of 1857. The revolt commenced due to several reasons in the country like religious and social causes. Racism or racial discrimination were supposed to be a major reason for the revolt of 1857 against the British. Indians were kept away from mixing with Europeans and exploited in various ways
On the 17th of August, Major William Hobson defeated a large body of cavalry tank near Rohtak. Around the 4th of September, they seized the trains, succeeding from Punjab and arrived in the British camp on the borders of Delhi. On the 21st of September, William Hodson captured the King of Delhi. John Nicholas got wounded at the time of the assault and died on 23rd September. William Hodson also executed the Mughal princes in Delhi.
By September, the Englishmen had gathered a force of approximately nine thousand, which consisted of 3,000 regular armies and over six thousand Sikhs, Punjabis, and others.
Wilson’s chief Engineer Officer had plotted to breach the city walls and invade an assault. Wilson was not agreeing to risk attack at mass but was insisted by Nicholson to agree to Baird Smith’s strategy. There were several moves among the English officers, in which Nicholson was remarkable, to replace Wilson as commander if he lost to agree to make the attack. As an introductory step, on 6 September the East India Company forces constructed “Reid’s Battery”, or the “Sammy House Battery”, of two 24-pounder and four 9-pounder guns, around the southern end of the ridge, to silence the guns on the Mori Bastion. Under command of Reid’s Battery, on 7 September the first siege battery proper was established, 700 yards (640 m) from the Mori Bastion. initiated fire on 8 September, four of its guns hooked the artillery on the Kashmir Bastion, while six guns and a heavy mortar silenced the rebels’ guns on the Mori Bastion after a long duel. The objective of this attack also deceived the rebels that the flouncing aggression would be made from the east, other than the north.
