Autograph Eyewitness Account of the final days of the Siege of Delhi, in the form of an original Autograph Letter Signed by Lieutenant J.R.Turnbull 75th Regt (and ADC to Major General Wilson) to Sir Charles [Yorke], being a comprehensive description of the assault, with a coloured map of the Palace gates and grounds by INDIAN MUTINY, The Siege of Delhi, September 1857

Delhi Palace, 27 September 1857. 12 pp. (over 2000 words) 7 x 4 inches, fine and legible, with the accompanying coloured map (9 x 8 inches). An authoritative contemporary account of the decisive recapture of Delhi by the British forces. “The King of Delhi was taken by Hodson 1st B.E.fusiliers, a most active officer. The Begum was also with him. He is an old man, very much crippled & can hardly walk. His life alone was promised, & on this he gave himself up; he had been deserted by nearly all his attendants. He was first taken to a house in the city, & I saw the first guard placed over him; since then he has been brought into the palace, but as a prisoner. The General, I think quite rightly declines seeing him, and hands over the whole of his management to the Civil Authorities ...”