Cashmere Gate Delhi India Antique Print Old Victorian Picture 1899
A black & white print, from a disbound book The Queen's Empire 2 1899 with another print on the reverse.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.
Actual picture size approx 8.875" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
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Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
THE CASHMERE GATE, DELHI. This is the Cashmere Gate, and this is the city wall of Delhi, which still bears the sign-manual of the battering British guns. Here it was that forty years ago a little party headed by Lieutenants Home and Salkeld advanced under the fire of the enemy, and in deadly peril of their lives laid the powder bags that were to open the way to the besieging army and if fortune crowned their efforts, to give back the great city of Delhi to the authority of Britain. It is not too much to say that the issue of the struggle depended upon the fall of Delhi, and the fall of Delhi was in no small measure due to the heroism of those who on the 20th of September, 1857, imperilled their lives before the Cashmere Gate.