He was told to 'make short work of Delhi,' but before Delhi could be taken more men had perished than his whole force at that time amounted to.

The advice to march upon Delhi was sound, but had it been rashly followed disaster would have been the inevitable result.

Had the Commander-in-Chief been goaded into advancing without spare ammunition and siege Artillery, or with an insufficient force, he must have been annihilated by the overwhelming masses of the mutineers--those mutineers, who, we shall see later, stoutly opposed Barnard's greatly augmented force at Badli-ki-Serai, would almost certainly have repulsed, if not destroyed, a smaller body of troops.
On the death of General Anson the command of the Field Force devolved on Major-General Sir Henry Barnard.
[Footnote 1: 'I am not so much surprised,' wrote General Anson to Lord Canning on the 23rd March, 'at their objections to the cartridges, having seen them.

I had no idea they contained, or, rather, are smeared with, such a quantity of grease, which looks exactly like fat.
After ramming down the ball, the muzzle of the musket is covered with it.

This, however, will, I imagine, not be the case with those prepared according to the late instructions.