Kashmiri gate
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The Kashmiri Gate is a gate located in Delhi. Built by Military Engineer Robert Smith in 1835, the gate is so named because it used to start a road that led to Kashmir.
[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 fighters fired volleys of cannon balls from this gate at the British and used the area to assemble for strategizing fighting and resistance. Here, the first patriots committed their lives to the cause of independence.
The British had used the gate to prevent the mutineers from entering the city. Evidence of the struggles are visible today in damages to the existing walls (the damage is presumably cannon ball related).
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