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| Bahadur Shah
Zafar, watched the flame of freedom snuffed by alien hands, Attempts in 1857 by the native
soldiery to restore him on the throne failed and he was exiled to Rangoon where he died
some years later. |
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| General Bakht
Khan stood the siege of Dehli with considerable ability. |
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| The siege at
Delhi's Red Fort on 12th May 1857, the troops reported to the ageing Bahadur Shah and
pledged obedience, but the technological superiority of the aliens triumphed and uprising
was brutally suppressed. |
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| Patriots in
action during the 1857 War of Independence |
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