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{{Locations_Infobox|presidency= [[Category:LocationsBengal (Presidency)|Bengal]] |image=|coordinates= [[Categoryhttp:Cities//maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.38, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency76.78&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=30.38,76.78 30.38°N 76.78°E]|altitude= 264 m (866 ft)|presentname=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala Ambala] Umballa is now known as Ambala and is a large town in the Punjab|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia. The Umballa Cantonment was established in the year 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at [[Kurnaulorg/wiki/Haryana Haryana]], following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.|country=India|transport=}}
'''Umballa''' is now known as Ambala and is a large town in the Punjab. The Umballa Cantonment was established in the year 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at [[Kurnaul]], following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42. ==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]], which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.
==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala Ambala] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala_Cantonment Ambala Cantonment]] Wikipedia
*Umballa in 1845 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bcwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA527 Missionary Register for 1845], page 527 Google Books
 
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