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Lalbagh Fort (লালবাগের কেল্লা)

Lalbagh Fort is also the witness of the revolt of the native soldiers against the British during the Great Rebellion of 1857.

 

As in the Red Fort in India, they were defeated by the force led by the East India Company. They and the soldiers who fled from Meerat were hanged to death at the Victoria Park. In 1858 the declaration of Queen Victoria of taking over the administrative control of India from the Company was read out at the Victoria park, latter renamed " Bahadur Shah Park " after the name of the last " Mughal Emperor " who led that greatest rebellion against then British empire.

 

Place : Dhaka , Bangladesh

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