...number of persons who suffered death for crimes connected with the rebellion was very considerable. It is difficult to analyse all that may have been done during that period of excitement. Towards the end of February 1858 however, when the Chief Commissioner visited Delhi, » he found that...

...commission appointed for the summary punishment of offenders convicted 2,025 persons, acquitting 1,261. Of the convicts, 392 were hanged, 57 were sentenced...of, as having been perpetrated by the mutineers and their sympathisers, the Delhi district received a lesson which •will never be forgotten.* As before...