Kashmiri gate
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[edit] Kashmiri Gate
Built by Military Engineer Robert Smith in 1835, the gate is named so because it used to start a pathway that led to Kashmir. It is located in Delhi.
[edit] Historical Significance
The gate first gained national attention during the Mutiny of 1857, considered to be the first war of Indian Independence (See Mangal Pandey). Indian freedom fighteres fired vollys of cannon balls from this gate to the British and used the area as an assembling place for strategies of war. Here, the martyrs of independence decided to sacrifice their lives for the respect of their country(wo)men.
The British had used the gate to prevent the mutineers from entering the city. The proof of this struggle exists in the damaged nature of the walls in the status quo (the damage is presumably cannon ball related).
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