What is a Siege Train, you ask!

What is a Siege train?

Before I answer that, let me explain what is a “Siege.”

The term derives from the Latin word for “seat” or “sitting.”

A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force, generally accompanied by an assault. A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that refuses to surrender and cannot be easily taken by a frontal assault. Sieges involve surrounding the target and blocking the reinforcement or escape of troops or provision of supplies.

In our case, the city of Delhi is under Siege. Although we control most of the city, British still occupy important portions, especially the ridge. We have the red fort under our control.

Here is a picture of one of our attack (July 30th attack):

You may recall the attempt to capture the Ridge on July 15th

We also know that the British are coming and in preparation of it, we have fortified our position as well.

Now, the British are sending a “Siege Train,” which is designed to break or circumvent our fortification. I presume they also want to attack the Red Fort.

As I said earlier, it is 8 miles long and includes heavy guns towed by elephants and other artillery carried by camels and god knows how many soldiers.

It is raining very heavily so the progress of the siege train is kind of slow and our inability to stop them at najaphgarh will come back to haunt us.

More as information becomes available.

The train is only 20 miles away, it won’t be long before the real battles start.