expedition to Nahdoor. On the 30th of May the Meerut force under
Brigadier-General Wilson came in contact with the enemy at Ghazee-ud-deen-
Nugghur, a village fifteen miles from Delhi, where there was a suspension
bridge across the Hindur. This fight, although unimportant in itself, is
memorable as being the first occasion upon which the mutineers and the
British troops met. Hitherto the Sepoys had had it entirely their own way.
Mutiny, havoc, murder, had gone on unchecked; but now the tide was to
turn, never to ebb again until the Sepoy mutiny was drowned in a sea of
blood. Upon this, their first meeting with the white troops, the Sepoys
were confident of success. They were greatly superior in force; they had
been carefully drilled in the English system; they were led by their
native regimental officers; and they had been for so many years pampered
and indulged by government, that they regarded themselves, as being, man
for man, fully equal to the British. Thus, then, they began to fight with
a confidence of victory which, however great their superiority in numbers,
was never again felt by the mutineers throughout the war. Upon many
subsequent occasions they fought with extreme bravery, but it was the
bravery of despair; whereas the British soldiers were animated with a
burning desire for vengeance, and an absolute confidence of victory. Thus
the fight at Ghazee-ud-deen-Nugghur is a memorable one in the annals of
British India.

The mutineers, seeing the smallness of the British force, at first
advanced to the attack; but they were met with such fury by four companies
of the Sixtieth Rifles, supported by eight guns of the artillery, by the
Carbineers and Warrener's Horse, that, astounded and dismayed, they broke
before the impetuous onslaught, abandoned their intrenchments, threw a way
their arms, and fled, leaving five guns in the hands of the victors, and
in many cases not stopping in their flight until they reached the gates of
Delhi. The next day considerable bodies of fresh troops came out to renew