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'''Ambala''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_284.gif Ambala District] in the Delhi Division of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at [[Karnal]], following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/624/category/17 Photograph: Church, Amballa Cantonment] from the FIBIS Gallery Album [http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/17 Railways / NWR/ H V O WATERS Collection]
*[http://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?%2F1070%2Fcategory%2F26 Postcard: St Pauls, Ambala] Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=887&s_id=264 Images: Ambala Cantonment Cemetery] FIBIS database. Includes a photograph of a memorial erected by the [[21st Hussars]] in 1869
==Churches==
The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this [http://www.archive.org/stream/balladsofburmaan00oolarich#page/4/mode/2up Archives,org link]. He was the author of ''Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India'', published 1860, refer [[Society reading list#Other aspects of society|Society reading list]], and [[Ambala#Historical books online|Historical books online, below]] which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.
St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.
===Historical books online===
*Umballa in 1845 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527 Missionary Register for 1845], page 527 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal''] by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author was an officer in the [[3rd Light Dragoons]], and later the [[9th Lancers]], and was based at Umballa at various periods 1846-1859
*''"Curry & Rice," on Forty Plates, or, The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'' by George Francklin Atkinson, with Forty Chapters, each with an Illustration (which may rotated in the Hathi Trust versions) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001679470b?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 1st Edition 1858] Hathi Trust, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c3021302?urlappend=%3Bseq=8 2nd Edition 1859] Hathi Trust, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZFxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT5 3rd Edition 1860] Google Books. The author was in the Bengal Engineers, and from 1854 was Executive Engineer of the Umballa Division
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ESBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA213 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on Umballa and its vicinity, Upper India"] by Dr Kendal, Surgeon, H. M.’s 7th Hussars, page 213 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859'' (published 1861) Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/openingmeerutan00compgoog ''Opening of the Meerut and Umballa Section of the Delhi Railway, on the 14th of November, 1868''] Archive.org
*Umballa is mentioned in [http://www.archive.org/stream/aroundworldonbic02stevrich#page/298/mode/2up/search/Umballa ''Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama''], page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=55 "Ambala District"] page 33 A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
