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==== Historical books on-line ====
====Maps====*[http://balochistanarchiveswww.gobdavidhorsfield.pk/Virtual-Maps-hd/19 Map org.uk ''From Semaphore to Satellite: The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals'']. The author spent time at the Staff College at Quetta Civil Station] Surveyed 1911-12 Corrected 1931-32 Balochistan Archives, both as a student and later an instructor, from 1944. davidhorsfield.org.uk
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It was the location of a cantonment. There was a Barracks known as Roberts Barracks.
The Army Staff College moved to Quetta in 1907. Established in 1905, it was a training college for officers. It is now known as the Command and Staff College and is the most prestigious institution of the Pakistan Army.
==Spelling variants==
<br>no.740: Quetta 1, Pakistan: Baleli Road: 1884-, [Note: This cemetery is probably the "Quetta Cantonment Christian Cemetery on Baleli Road"]<ref>[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/a/Jeremy-G-Beaty/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0038.html George Henry Montague Beaty (b. January 07, 1899, d. May 31, 1935)] </ref>
<br>no.741: Quetta 2, Pakistan: Shaldara: closed; Lytton Road: closed; Earthquake [Note: Lytton Road is now known as Zarghoon Road]
==Maps==
*[http://balochistanarchives.gob.pk/Virtual-Maps-hd/19 Map of Quetta Civil Station] Surveyed 1911-12 Corrected 1931-32 Balochistan Archives
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta Quetta] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Quetta History of Quetta] Wikipedia
*[https://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=291&rnd=495 Command and Staff College, Quetta] pakistanarmy.gov.pk. It moved to Quetta in 1907.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TTFC9K8os&feature=related Bruce Street] (now Jinnah Road) before 1935 earthquake.(youtube video)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nce3PWXpsa0 Post office] before and after earthquake (1935) (youtube video)
*[http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2010/11/brewing-in-19th-century-india.html Brewing in 19th-century India] mentions the brewery at Quetta.
*''A gazetteer of the countries adjacent to India on the northwest Volume 2'' by Edward Thornton 1844 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7&dq=A+gazetteer+of+the+countries+adjacent+to+India+on+the+northwest+...,+Volume+2+By+Edward+Thornton++generally+mentioned+by+British+writers&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Shawl - scroll to page 187] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/indianborderlan00holdgoog#page/n24/mode/2up Quetta in 1878] page 7 ''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel Sir T Hungerford Holdich 1901 Archive.org
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