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A historically significant gate in Delhi.
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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.
The gate first gained national attention during the Mutiny of 1857, considered to be the first war of Indian Independence. Indian freedom fighters fired volleys of cannon balls from this gate to the British and used the area as an assembling place for strategies of war.
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 that is visible today.
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