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The British , however , were in no humor for distant fighting ; they panted to get at the murderers of women and children -- these men who had shot down in cold blood the officers , whose only fault had been their too great kindness to , and confidence in them . Orders were given to the Seventy-fifth to advance at once and take the position ; and that regiment , giving a tremendous cheer , rushed forward with such impetuosity through the heavy fire that , as at Ghazee-ud-deen-Nugghur , the Sepoys were seized with a panic , and fled in wild haste from their intrenchments , leaving their cannon behind them . At the foot of the steep hill on which the signal tower stands , another and stronger line of defense had been prepared ; but the mutineers stationed here were infected by the wild panic of the fugitives from the first position , and so , deserting their position , joined in the flight into the city . The British troops had marched from their encampment at Alipore at one in the morning , and by nine A.M. the last Sepoy disappeared within the walls of the town , and the British flag flew out on the signal tower on the Ridge , almost looking down upon the rebel city , and the troops took up their quarters in the lines formerly occupied by the Thirty-eighth , Fifty-fourth , and Seventy-fourth native regiments . As the English flag blew out to the wind from the signal tower , a thrill of anxiety must have been felt by every one in Delhi , from the emperor down to the lowest street ruffian . So long as it waved there it was a proof that the British Raj was not yet overthrown -- that British supremacy , although sorely shaken , still asserted itself -- and that the day of reckoning and retribution would , slowly perhaps , but none the less surely , come for the blood-stained city . Not only in Delhi itself , but over the whole of India , the eyes of the population were turned toward that British flag on the Ridge .