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'''Mandalay''' is a city in [[Burma]] on the Irrawaddy River. It was a British possession from 1885 until its independence in 1948. It was the location of a cantonment, also known as [[Fort Dufferin]].
==History==
*[[Sittang Valley State Railway]]
*[[Madaya Light Railway]]
==Churches==
*Christ Church, Mandalay 1873. Church of England. <ref>[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/113/mode/1up Page 87] ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University</ref>
==Poisoning by servants==
Mr. Lillywhite, telegraph-master, and his family were poisoned with arsenic by disgruntled servants c 1899, at Mandalay, which was reported in a newspaper, probably the ''Times of Burma'', available at the British Library. <ref>White, Phillip.[https://web.archive.org/web/20201221221343/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj&thread=1165872 British-Raj Digest, Vol 6, Issue 65] ''Rootsweb India British Raj Mailing List'' 3 April 2011. There are other related posts shortly before this date, [https://web.archive.org/web/20201221221701/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?searchemails=Lillywhite&listname=india-british-raj scroll down]. Archived links.</ref>
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay Mandalay] Wikipedia
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/REFERENCE/GAZETTEER/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_144.gif "Mandalay City"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', v. 17, p. 138.
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:281/#page/394/mode/2up "Mandalay"], page 365 ''Report and Gazetteer of Burma, Native and British, Volume I'' by Major Douglas MacNeill 1883. seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.109904/2015.109904.Report-And-Gazetteer-Of-Burma-Native-And-British-Part-1#page/n391/mode/2up Archive.org, Digital Library of India version].
*[https://archive.org/details/MandalayIn1878-1879TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck "Mandalay in 1878-1879: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"] reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2003. Archive.org. James Alfred Colbeck was the mission priest for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , an Anglican missionary organisation. Originally from ''Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88'' (1892). Now available online, see following.
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"] Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/letters-from-mandalay-james-alfred-colbeck-1892/page/n5/mode/2up ''Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88''] by the late James Alfred Colbeck, edited by George H Colbeck 1892. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11710026_000/page/358/mode/2up "Mandalay City or Fort Dufferin"] page 254 ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897 Archive.org.
*[https://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/8/3/318.full.pdf "Snipe Shooting at Mandalay"] by Lieutenant-Colonel W Watson Pike, page 318 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps March 1907''. jramc.bmj.com
*[https://archive.org/details/burma-gazetteer-mandalay-district-vol-a-1928 ''Burma Gazetteer Mandalay District Vol A''] 1928 Archive.org
:[http://myanmar-law-library.org/law-library/legal-journal/burma-gazetter/mandalay-district-volume-a.html ''Burma Gazetteer: The Mandalay District Volume A''] probably the same edition. Transcription from Myanmar Law Library. Page 215 briefly mentions the Cantonment.
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