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Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India

1907

THE country now known as Burma is the most easterly of the provinces forming the British Empire in India and lying on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal extends from Assam and Tibet in the north to the river Pak-Chan on the frontier of Siam in the south. [...] The course of operations on the frontier owing to the lack of roads and consequent impossibility of moving troops by this route to Ava was to be strictly defensive or at the utmost limited to the re-establishment of the States subdued by the Burmese while the offensive operations were to consist of an over-sea expedition against Rangoon and such portions of the enemy's coast as should offer [...] a forward position had been maintained although the nature of the country the state of the weather and the smallness of the force had prevented the campaign from closing with the eclat with which it had opened. [...] The Burmese who were completely surprised by the arrival of the British and quite unprepared for this sudden attack fled on the advance of the troops ; and in twenty minutes the town was in the undiputed possession of the British without the loss of a single life. [...] In order to put a stop to this mode of warfare and to find out the numbers and position of the enemy Sir Archibald marched out on the 28th of May with feur companies of British troops 250 sepoys one gun and a howitzer against the entrenchments in the neighbourhood of the camp which were supported by a large body of troops under the command of the Governor of Shwedang.
government politics public policy
Pages
479
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146875
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
iii-xii unknown view
Part I. The Frist Burmese War
i-72 unknown view
Part II. The Second Burmese War
73-106 unknown view
Part III. The Third Burmese War
107-312 unknown view
Part IV. The Chins Kachins and Shans
313-426 unknown view
Appendices
427-468 unknown view