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[[Battle of Ahmednuggur 1803]]<br>
[[Battle of Ahmednuggur 1804]]
== Prisoner of War Camps at Ahmednagar==
There was a Boer POW camp during and after the Boer War, and a POW/internment camp for civilians during the [[First World War]]
<br>See [[POW Camps in India]]
==Churches==
*Christ Church, Ahmednagar
** There was a memorial for the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. “Officers, NCO's and men who died at Ahmednagar 1917 -1919. 42 names." <ref>FIBIS Database [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1389690 Group Memorials, Percy-Smith/Bullock Papers]. Individual names do not appear to be available.</ref> It is not known whether this memorial still exists.
== External links ==
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060903/spectrum/main5.htm "Where freedom held fort"] by Himmat Singh Gill Sunday, September 3, 2006 tribuneindia.com. The Ahmednagar Fort held political prisoners in the 1940s including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
*Scroll down [http://majhanagar.weebly.com/incredible-ahmednagar.html Incredible Ahmednagar], for details of the Tank Museum, established by the Armored Corps Centre and School, Ahmednagar in February 1994. Photographs on picasaweb [http://picasaweb.google.com/113353781365135287048/CavalryTankMuseumMIRCAhmednagar# rahul m’s Gallery], [https://picasaweb.google.com/105304451929924548510/TripAhmadnagarPalashiNov11# morakhandi v’s Gallery]. Article [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090524/spectrum/main6.htm "Tanks down the years"] by Rajendra Rajan, tribuneindia.com Sunday, May 24, 2009
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-x1q3J2Mm4 Ahmednagar: Fort: Boer And German POWs Held By The British] YouTube Video. Contains some cemetery images.
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_131.gif "Ahmadnagar City"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 5, page 123.
*Ahmednuggur, in the Deccan, is listed in [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZ8EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA235 a List of all the military stations in the Bombay Presidency], with details, page 235 ''Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VII, New Series 1861'' Google Books
*[http://archive.org/stream/talesofahmednaga00cowlrich#page/n11/mode/2up ''Tales of Ahmednagar''] by Captain Cecil Cowley, 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 1919 Archive.org. History of Ahmednagar, mostly for the pre British period.
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