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|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]  
|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]  
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|image=Station hospital Ambala.jpg
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.38,76.78&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=30.38,76.78 30.38°N 76.78°E]
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.38,76.78&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=30.38,76.78 30.38°N 76.78°E]
|altitude= 264 m (866 ft)
|altitude= 264 m (866 ft)

Revision as of 11:02, 28 April 2011

Ambala
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 30.38°N 76.78°E
Altitude: 264 m (866 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Ambala
State/Province: Haryana
Country: India
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Umballa is now known as Ambala and is a large town in the Punjab. The Umballa Cantonment was established in the year 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Kurnaul, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.

Churches

The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link. He was the author of Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.

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