Recapture of Delhi

September 15, 1857

After four months of siege, a mixed British, Sikh, and Gurkha force stormed Delhi at the Kashmiri Gate and fought house to house to the Red Fort. Bahadur Shah, the last Mughal, surrendered; his sons were shot. The city was sacked. Three centuries of Mughal rule over India, already nominal, were finally and formally extinguished.