Mandalay

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.

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

• Burma Railway
• Sittang Valley State Railway
• Madaya Light Railway

External links

• Mandalay Wikipedia
• This British Raj List thread led to a British Raj list 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.