The assault on the Kashmere Gate or Kashmiri Gate by British soldiers during Indian rebellion of 1857, during which the bridge and the left leaf of the Gate were destroyed using gunpowder, this started the final assault on the rebels towards the end of Siege of Delhi. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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