 The move to locate cantonments in "cool and healthy hill stations" was justified on strategic, and health grounds.In the following decade several cantonments, including in Balun(Dalhousie), Bakloh, Chakrata, Ranikhet, in the western lower Himalayas, were established.In 1863 it was decided that one third of the British troops in India should be located in the hill station cantonments.