WALK : DelhiByFoot presents Jung-e-Azadi: Special Mutiny of 1857 Commemorative Walk > Meeting at McDonalds, Kashmere Gate Metro Station > 9am on 21st February 2016

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Time : 9:00 am Add to Calendar 21/02/2016 09:00 21/02/2016 11:30 Asia/Kolkata WALK : DelhiByFoot presents Jung-e-Azadi: Special Mutiny of 1857 Commemorative Walk Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/02/walk-delhibyfoot-presents-jung-e-azadi.html McDonalds outside the station, Exit Gate 7, Kashmere Gate Metro Station, New Delhi DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Charges : Rs. 500 / person inclusive of breakfast
*Children below 10 are allowed free!
* We also have a 50% discount for enthusiastic Senior Citizens aged 60 & above
Contact : 9871181775

Meeting Place : McDonalds outside the station, Exit Gate 7, Kashmere Gate Metro Station, New Delhi
Venue Info : Map | Kasmere Gate Metro Station which comes under Red Line and  Yellow Line

Event Description : The garrison of native Indian Sepoys (soldiers) of the British East India Company stationed at Meerut attacked the British soldiers and their families in the cantonment and triggered the events which changed the course of India’s & Delhi's history. 
Join the storytellers of DelhiByFoot as they take you back to the 'Year 1857'...feel your pulse race as you hear how Delhi was thrust into importance during the 1st war of independence...as you walk to some of the prominent & strategically significant spots related to the Mutiny of 1857 in Delhi.

10th May 1857 
A mass mutiny by a garrison of native Indian Sepoys (soldiers) of the British East India Company in the dusty little town of Meerut near Delhi threw the country into turmoil. The revolt soon spread across the Northern parts of India and Delhi the capital of the crumbling, almost non-existent Mughal Empire was thrust into prominence. Thus started the 1st Indian War of Independence. The revolt spread like wild-fire in Northern parts of Indian and the rest as they say is history! For almost 15 months, hard & violent battles were fought, but finally the British Company soldiers using local help, advanced western arms & ammunition and a far better organized army quelled the ‘Mutiny of 1857’, as it was referred by the British.

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