Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Delhi (Second Mahratta War).

The city was invested October 7, 1804, by 20,000 Mahrattas, with 100 guns, under Jeswunt Rao Holkar, and was successfully defended for nine days by a small British garrison. At the end of this period, Holkar withdrew. So small was the garrison, that they were on constant duty on the ramparts, throughout the siege, without relief.