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Abul Fazl recorded that 500 buildings in Benghal and Gujarat designs were built in it. Some were demolished by Shah Jahan to make room for his white marble palaces, but most were destroyed by the British troops to build barracks between 1803 and 1862. Hardly 30 mughal buildings have survived on the south-eastern side, facing the river. Of these, the Delhi gate, and Akbar gate and one palace, Bengali Mahal, are representative Akbari buildings. The Delhi gate faces the city. A draw-bridge and the crooked entrance made it impregnable. Two life-size elephants with their riders were placed on its inner gate which was called Hathi Pol. The Delhi gate was moumentally built as the king's formal gate. Akbar gate was renamed Amar Singh gate by the British. This gate is similar to the Delhi gate. Both are built of red stone.