Description
Rare c.19th aquatint the British troops at Kemmendine (Kyimyindaing Township), near Rangoon, Mymar (Burma), from the important visual record of the Burmese countryside and scenery, and of the war between the Burmese and British in 1824 to 1826 by Ltn. Joseph Moore.
Following Burmese incursions into British held territory in 1821-1823 (including the successful invasion of Assam), the Governor-General, Lord Amherst, declared war on Burma on February 24, 1824. The British were successful in expelling the Burmese from Assam, but Bandula, the ablest of the Burmese generals, repelled a British detachment at Ramu on the Chittagong frontier. In reply, the British sent an expedition of 11,000 men under Major-General Archibald Campbell and ships under Captain Frederick Marryat to attack Rangoon by sea. The expedition resulted in the capture of Rangoon on May 11, 1824, with the Burmese forces fleeing into jungles of Pegu.
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