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'''Chunar''' is situated on the right bank of the Ganges, approximately twenty five miles to the west of [[Benares]] (Varanasi) (ie upriver) and was on the [[East Indian Railway]]. The historic Chunar Fort is located here.
C 1834<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CBAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA119 "Mofussil Stations: No XII - Monghyr"] page 119 ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Volume 14, New Series May-August 1834. Google Books</ref> it was the one of the four locations of invalided European Veterans in Bengal (the others being [[Buxar]], [[Monghyr]] and [[Murshidabad|Moorshedabad]].) These men probably belonged to a Veterans' Battalion, similar to the [[Carnatic European Veteran Battalion]] in Madras Presidency.
==External links==
*[http://www.google.com.au/search?q=chunar+fort+varanasi&start=10&hl=en&sa=N&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=P5-3T_XBMnZigefubHwCA&ved=0CHUQsAQ4Cg&biw=1355&bih=677 Images of the Chunar Fort] Google
==Historic Books Historical books online==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_339.gif "Chunar Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 10'', page 333.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-94RAAAAYAAJ&dq=Chunar%20Fort&pg=PA80 Chunar and Chunar Fort] , page 80 ''The United Service Magazine,Part 3 1858'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/392/mode/2up Chunar] page 393 ''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
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