2-716-562 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58: The Storming of the Cashmir Gate, Delhi, September 14, 1857', (1901). Episode during the British colonial period. The capture of the city of Delhi from the mutineers was vital to the British due to its symbolic importance as the seat of India's Mughal rulers. Here we see fierce fighting at the Kashmiri Gate, the northern gate in the city walls. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]