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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay Mandalay] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay Mandalay] Wikipedia | ||
*This British Raj List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301732351 thread] led to a British Raj list [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301860937 post] with a transcription of a newspaper report about the Lillywhite family, poisoned by arsenic by the family cook in Mandalay, c 1899, resulting in three deaths. | |||
[[Category:Locations]] | [[Category:Locations]] | ||
[[Category:Burma]] | [[Category:Burma]] | ||
Revision as of 02:43, 7 April 2011
| Mandalay | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 21.5830 °N, 96.50 °E |
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| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Mandalay |
| State/Province: | Mandalay Division |
| Country: | Burma |
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Mandalay is a city in Burma on the Irrawaddy River. It was a British possession from 1885 until its independence in 1948.
History
Mandalay was annexed by the British in 1885 at the end of the 3rd Burma War. The city fell after the Battle of Mandalay on the 28th November.