Industrial Age · South Asia · War
1857
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.
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Also in 1857 (3 other events on record)
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.