ABSTRACT
Ambala having emerged the most important centre of the resurging British force. Once the British officers started to move the Delhi Field Force on the GT Road, they had some respite to think about the retribution, vengeance, and the suppression of the rebels. Tales of atrocities against women and children, many of them exaggerated, had infuriated the British soldiers and almost any Indian male was considered a fair game. The British forces marched from Ambala and UP through Sonepat where huge camps had been established at Larsauli, Rai, and Alipur in the early half of June. Jaipur had agreed to help the British maintain law and order in the Gurgaon area and it was eventually resolved on 17 May that political agent captain William Fredrick Eden with five thousand troops should march towards Mathura and Gurgaon to maintain and aid in the establishment of a civil government.
