Toungoo

Toungoo
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	18.933333°N 96.433333°E
Altitude:	49 m (160 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Taungoo
State/Province:	Bago Division
Country:	Burma
Transport links
Burma Railway

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Toungoo was the headquarters of Toungoo District in the Tenasserim Division of Lower Burma during the British period. It was situated on the Rangoon-Mandalay Railway, part of the Burma Railway, 166 miles from Rangoon, and 220 miles from Mandalay. Up until 1893, Toungoo was an important cantonment.

A brief comment that in 1877-8 Tounghoo was a Frontier Station

Spelling variants

Modern name: Taungoo
Variants: Toungoo/Tonngo/Tongo/Tounghoo/Tonghoo/Toung-Ngoo/Taung-ngu

History

Battle of Tounghoo 1853

Churches

• St John the Baptist Toungoo 1870. Church of England.
• St Paul’s Toungoo 1887. Church of England.

External links

• Toungoo Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23, page 433
  
• Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885 with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. old-print.com (archived page) Originally from The Graphic Saturday, October 24, 1885

Historical books on-line

• "Tonghoo" page 436 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
• "Toung-Ngoo" The British Burma Gazetteer, page 806, published 1879 Archive.org
• "Ten Days at Toungoo" by the Rev Dr Marks, Principal of St John’s College, Rangoon page 44 Mission Field, a monthly record of the proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and abroad 1880 Archive.org
• Burma Gazetteer: District Series. Toungoo District Vol A 1914. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.