On 17 June in Kotah-ki-Serai close to the Phool Bagh of Gwalior, a group of the eighth (King's Royal Irish) Hussars, under Captain Heneage, battled the huge Indian power directed by Rani Lakshmibai, who was attempting to leave the region. The eighth Hussars surged into the Indian power, butchering 5,000 Indian warriors, including any Indian "over the period of 16".They took two firearms and proceeded with the charge directly through the Phool Bagh camp. 

In this commitment, as indicated by an observer account, Rani Lakshmibai put on a sowar's uniform and assaulted one of the hussars; she was unhorsed and furthermore injured, most likely by his saber. In a matter of seconds subsequently, as she sat seeping by the side of the road, she perceived the officer and discharged at him with a gun, whereupon he "dispatched the youngster with his carbine".

As indicated by another custom Rani Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, dressed as a mounted force pioneer, was gravely injured; not wishing the British to catch her body, she advised a recluse to consume it. After her passing a couple of neighborhood individuals incinerated her body. 

The British caught the city of Gwalior following three days. In the British report of this fight, Hugh Rose remarked that Rani Lakshmibai is "charming, cunning and lovely" and she is "the most risky of every Indian chief". Rose revealed that she had been covered "with incredible function under a tamarind tree under the Rock of Gwalior, where I saw her bones and cinders". 

Her burial chamber is in the Phool Bagh zone of Gwalior. Twenty years after her demise Colonel Malleson wrote in the History of the Indian Mutiny; vol. 3; London, 1878 'Whatever her issues in British eyes may have been, her compatriots will ever recollect that she was driven by abuse into disobedience, and that she lived and kicked the bucket for her nation, We can't overlook her commitment for India.