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==Poisoning by servants==
==Poisoning by servants==
Mr. Lillywhite, telegraph-master, and his family were poisoned with arsenic by disgruntled servants c 1899, at Mandalay, which was reported in a newspaper, probably the ''Times of Burma'', available at the British Library. <ref>White, Phillip.[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2011-04/1301860937 British-Raj Digest, Vol 6, Issue 65] ''Rootsweb India British Raj Mailing List'' 3 April 2011. There are other related posts shortly before this date.  Retrieved 15 May 2016.</ref>
Mr. Lillywhite, telegraph-master, and his family were poisoned with arsenic by disgruntled servants c 1899, at Mandalay, which was reported in a newspaper, probably the ''Times of Burma'', available at the British Library. <ref>White, Phillip.[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/thread/1165872/ British-Raj Digest, Vol 6, Issue 65] ''Rootsweb India British Raj Mailing List'' 3 April 2011. There are other related posts shortly before this date.  Retrieved 29 July 2019.</ref>


==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up  "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"]  Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up  "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"]  Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/360/mode/1up "Mandalay City or Fort Dufferin"] page 254 ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897 “South East Asia Visions” Cornell University.
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/360/mode/1up "Mandalay City or Fort Dufferin"] page 254 ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897 “South East Asia Visions” Cornell University.
*[https://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/8/3/318.full.pdf "Snipe Shooting at Mandalay"] by Lieutenant-Colonel W Watson Pike, page 318 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps  March 1907''. jramc.bmj.com
*[http://myanmar-law-library.org/law-library/legal-journal/burma-gazetter/mandalay-district-volume-a.html ''Burma Gazetteer: The Mandalay District Volume A''] probably c 1925. Transcription from Myanmar Law Library. Page 215  briefly mentions the Cantonment.
*[http://myanmar-law-library.org/law-library/legal-journal/burma-gazetter/mandalay-district-volume-a.html ''Burma Gazetteer: The Mandalay District Volume A''] probably c 1925. Transcription from Myanmar Law Library. Page 215  briefly mentions the Cantonment.



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Mandalay
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 21.5830 °N, 96.50 °E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Mandalay
State/Province: Mandalay Division
Country: Burma
Transport links

Mandalay is a city in Burma on the Irrawaddy River. It was a British possession from 1885 until its independence in 1948. It was the location of a cantonment, also known as Fort Dufferin.

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.

Railways

Churches

  • Christ Church, Mandalay 1873. Church of England. [1]

Poisoning by servants

Mr. Lillywhite, telegraph-master, and his family were poisoned with arsenic by disgruntled servants c 1899, at Mandalay, which was reported in a newspaper, probably the Times of Burma, available at the British Library. [2]

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. Page 87 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University
  2. White, Phillip.British-Raj Digest, Vol 6, Issue 65 Rootsweb India British Raj Mailing List 3 April 2011. There are other related posts shortly before this date. Retrieved 29 July 2019.