On September 21st Captain Hodson rode to the tomb, arrested the King,
and brought him back to Delhi with other members of the family, and
lodged them in the palace. The next day he went again, with one hundred
horsemen, and arrested two sons of the King in the midst of a crowd of
armed retainers, and brought them away in a native carriage. Near the
city the carriage was surrounded by a tumultuous crowd; and Hodson, who
was afraid of a rescue, shot both princes with his pistol, and placed
their bodies in a public place for all men to see.
Thus fell the imperial city; captured by the army under Brigadier Wilson
before the arrival of any of the reenforcements from England. The losses
were heavy. From the beginning of the siege to the close, the British
army at Delhi had nearly four thousand killed and wounded. The
casualties on the side of the rebels were never estimated. Two bodies of
sepoys broke away from the city and fled down the valleys of the Jumna
and Ganges, followed by two flying columns under Brigadiers Greathed and
Showers.
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