Mandalay: Difference between revisions

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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.

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.

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 ==External links==
 *[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.
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 [[Category:Burma]]