(4) In 1803, the British captured Delhi. The fiction of Mughal Empire was kept up by the British till 1858 when the last of the Mughal emperors Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Rangoon. He died in Rangoon on November 7, 1862.The Indian cavalry comprising two thousand soldiers entered Delhi on May 11, 1857. The soldiers killed English Colonel Ripley and Delhi was freed fromEnglish hands. The soldiers declared Bahadur Shah Zafar as the Emperor of India who was 82 years old. The English commander-in-chief and Brigadier Wilson laid the seige of Delhi. The British captured Delhi completely on September 24, 1857. Because of the treachery of Ilahi Bakhsha,Bahadur Shah fell into hands of British.