Flagstaff Tower
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flagstaff-tower-286-3955177
title:
Flagstaff Tower
text:
Flagstaff Tower is a one-room, castellated tower, built around 1828 as a signal tower, located in Kamla Nehru Ridge near the present-day North Campus of Delhi University in Delhi, India. It was here that many Europeans and their families sheltered on 11 May 1857, during the Siege of Delhi by the rebels at the beginning of the Indian rebellion of that year, waiting for help to arrive from nearby Meerut. Built by the British Indian Army, the building was part of the British cantonment and was used
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description:
19th-century signal tower in Kamla Nehru Ridge, Delhi, India
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff_Tower
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date modified:
2023-11-25T05:35:37Z
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